Hank's Inferno
Canto I
it should not bring amazement to thy face.
I'm so lonesome I could cry
shed tears, and in their looks appeared subdued
Headin' south from Caroline
and turning to the right along its ridge,
Rootie Tootie, she's my Monday gal.
Farinata and Tegghiaio, who so worthy were,
I stand on the banks of the river
its mosques already in that valley there,
Praise the Lord I saw the light.
what time the Giants caused the Gods to fear;
Why Don't You Love Me like you used to do.
because his eyesight could not lead him far
Since my baby said goodbye
is bathed by waters which therein find rest.
And I'll catch all the fish in the bayou
its body is taken from it by a demon,
With the pride that came between us
where Hercules set up those signs of his,
A sweatin' and swearin'
than to remember happy days in days
You should see the people stare
as I, after such words as these were uttered,
You didn't even know, the chances you were takin'
"Nearer than thou dost hope" he then replied,
Darlin I could never be ashamed of you
since which till now I 've had him by the hair;
For you've grown tired of all the love I gave you
that from the pyre it seems to rise, whereon
You tried and lost, now pay the cost
mantled already with that planet's rays
Didn't think you would leave me behind
for great desire constraineth me to learn
Jesus said ,come on to me
"Before I tear myself from this abyss,
I'll meet my loved ones there, in that land so bright and fair
because the Fishes o'er the horizon quiver,
You lived on promises I knew would fall apart
whose nature differed in no way from that,
They're leavin' on that Devil's Train
ungrateful, wicked people, which of old
When it rains - it wets ever'thing we got
that so dost in our short life goad us on,
Dear, I must throw your things away
but, as I told him, his own spitefulness
At the close of Ev'ry day
'gainst me inflamed the minds of every one;
I've sent your saddle home.
Canto II
I, therefore: "Teacher, say what town is this?"
How she cried when I left her
Abram the patriarch, and David king,
Will you please make up your mind what you want me to do
If it be true the right bank slopeth so,
In my dreams you're still my only darlin'
"˜Father, thou lookest so! What aileth thee?'
Just how much mama worried when we children were away
he ne'er so changed two natures, that the forms
Around me many are building
even by the God it was not thine to know,
'Cause My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
but that complete experience may be giv'n him,
Will you move to that beautiful city
seems not unfitting to a thoughtful man;
Now boys don't start to ramblin' round
mayst thou, accursí¨d spirit, here remain,
But dear I hope you're happy just the same
to one of them my Leader then began,
Mother is gone, to her home
would fain excuse myself, and all the while
And get no lovin' in return
to those who burdens win by severing bonds.
I guess that I - should not complain
set not thy feet upon the burning sand,
There just ain't nobody knows what I go through
Why dost thou lodge such baseness in thy heart,
Those wedding bells will never ring for me
defended by a lovely little stream.
Now I got rockin' chair money
the hope I had of winning to the top.
The porch rotted down - that's more expense
which for the bone were strong as are a dog's.
Ev'rybody's lonesome for somebody else
And as I, looking, came into their midst,
He's repeating these words he was told.
And one of them, who felt aggrieved, perhaps,
'cause I'm cryin' for you, dear
And I said: "Teacher, wait now for me here,
Oh the rain is slowly fallin',
the reason why such discord hath assailed her."
Tote it on over (move it on over)
but what brings thee into such pungent sauces?"
My number's in the book
replied: "To this condition I was come
Then all God's faithful children will raise up from the dead
"˜O Lady of virtue, thou through whom alone
And then maybe these tears
Canto III
Gallura's man, a vessel of all fraud,
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
that I may somewhat vent the pain that fills
Now I ain't had a kiss since I fell out of my crib
those frightful Giants, whom, when from the sky
You'll cry and cry
which comes along so cloven at the top,
And there's pictures of keys and of strife
Semiramis she is, of whom one reads
THEN IT'S USELESS TO YOU, IF YOU'VE STRAYED FROM THE FOLD,
who Latin is?" And he: "Not long ago
So scratch it on over (move it on over)
for fires I now beheld, and wailings heard;
LORD I WENT TO THE DOCTOR, HE TOOK ONE LOOK,
repent her not, whoever subtly looks
If it was rainin' gold I wouldn't stand a chance
Then, having talked among themselves awhile,
Got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes,
So wholly wast thou then intent on him
Lord you better keep it on your mind
his nose cut off as far as 'neath his brows,
I know that I - should leave, but then
recall to mind our avaricious breasts."
I'm going home, I'm going home
A narrow slit within the moulting-tower,
For when she went away, my world ended that day
behold who sickens all the world with stench!"
That I wouldn't settle down if I could
remain, that him so dark a land didst show."
I heard the angels singing songs of peace and rest
There is a devil here behind, who thus
Those who seek it will recieve it, mercy at the Savior's feet.
and after it there came so long a line
She leaves Cincinnati headin' down that Dixie line
and still more will there be, until the Hound
tell her that I've met my saviour
to seek their profit and avoid their loss,
They nailed his hands there on the cross
which bears, because of me, the name of Hunger,
But what good would it do
to have the people pass across the bridge,
It makes me laugh and it makes me cry
Let us leave him alone, nor talk in vain;
Not even the angels; in heaven will know
and thus like crystal visors wholly fill
Just a picture from life's other side
Now canst thou, son, behold the short-lived cheat
WHEN THE WORLD IS ON FIRE, ON THAT JUDGEMENT DAY,
Canto IV
thus upside down? And in so short a time
I got the lovesick blues
and seed of their conception and their birth.
now my key, it don't fit no more
from this thy reading, think now for thyself
I got all that I can do just to mind my own
but of the good to treat which there I found,
Just another guy on the lost highway
Eurỳpylus, and in a certain place
Where the cotton grows and the suwanee flows,
And he replied to me: "They each and all
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
as greyhounds are, when from their chains unleashed.
So I don't care if tomorrow never comes.
I think that he had risen upon his knees.
Yes, i'm goin' back to dixie, that's the place i long to be,
by that beast's anger which I quenched just now.
and carry on
"whence dwells in you this overweening pride?
And when I find me that river, Lord I'm gonna pay the price, oh Lord
and I still gazing at its lofty wall,
I've fetched your saddle home.
were saying: "Who is he, that, without death,
FOR NO MATTER HOW MUCH EARTHLY WEALTH YOU GET HOLD,
When I perceived at last that I had reached
Of a family I once knew.
and therefore with its mark the lesser ring
But I'm sure the truth would show
And he, who understood my covert speech,
Oh! Plea-ease - don't let me love you
Her eyes were shining brighter than a star,
All alone I bear the shame
although this trench goes round eleven miles,
You're nice to me when there's no one else around
when sweetly and softly she began to say,
I bowed my head and cried again
some lying are; and some are standing up,
Scoot it on over (move it on over)
I cannot well say how I entered it,
Won't you sometimes think of me
where that vale ended which had pierced my heart
Whom God has called back to the fold
whence I to him: "My Teacher, who moves this?
He always wore his Sunday feathers and held a tomahawk
These churchmen were, who have no hairy covering
The river of life
people I saw upon a great stream's bank;
But you wouldn't let it be
Canto V
Then, having raised my brows a little higher,
And in her eyes the gleam again that old time tender light
They had no feathers, but were like a bat's
I'm sentenced to die at dawn
of that which many voyages has made;
The first scene is that of a gambler
Then, as it pleased him, I embraced his neck,
When you're alone and blue tonight my little darlin'
of such a nature were the flames that moved
I don't care who thinks we're silly you'll be daffy and I'll be dilly
They go by thousands round about the moat,
No-bod-o-dy lonesome for me.
When they were somewhat pacified again,
We'll meet in heaven some glad day. ...
These words were wafted down to us from them.
I stand on the banks of the river
to see if any yonder air themselves;
I'm like a weepin'-willow, while we're apart
now from the flames, now from the heated soil.
I knew not where the road would end
when I was in it, cast mine eyes around,
We'll take in all the honky tonks tonight we're havin' fun
who yonder claws herself with filthy nails,
LOVING YOU AND KNOWING YOU WERE UNTRUE,
and out of it there came a stench, like that
The first three months, was all OK,
Yet dead men's feet are not thus wont to do."
I'VE GOT THE MEAN OLD MISERIES IN MY SOUL,
the execution of so great a charge,
There's more fish in the sea
his arms he opened, and took hold of me.
There was a time when I believed that you belonged to me
till thou return, I 'll talk with this wild beast,
Praise the Lord I saw the light.
And as a frog remains, to do its croaking,
As I brushed your arm and walked so close to you ...
the thoughts thou hast will all be proven false."
I leave you the day, to help all your neighbors
and led me to the bush, which all in vain
And out in the darkness the whippoorwills cry.
While toward the lowland I was falling fast,
From the start to the VJ day
"These have no hope of death, and so low down
came the day you said you'd be my own
the undiscerning life which made them foul,
My life with you baby has been one hard knock
who are these people that such honor have,
Her eyes reflect the nightlife her cheeks they're red with paint
Canto VI
should have been welcomed in the world above.
To live in when this life is o'er
't is now abandoned like a thing outworn.
And now the bitter teardrops start
the enterprise so hastily commenced.
As we pay tribute to one of the greatest of all time Bob Wills
"˜Him of Duera' thou canst say, "˜I saw
Why when I married you, you were such a meek little thing
The latter streaked their faces with their blood,
BUT YOU HAVE TREATED ME SO BAD,
Averrhoí¨s, who made the famous comment.
I'll never see that gal of mine
as if it were not, longs for that which is;
And I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Livin'.
Two paws it had, all hairy to the arm-pits;
To anyone who's fool enough to fall ...
He of the dropsy: "Here thou sayest true,
About my daddy
the town, whose name is Dis, is drawing near
days we could recall if you would only try dear
thus is it yonder willed, where there is power
We don't get nearer or further or closer
the nature of the place shoots forth, I 'd say
When i cross them smokey mountains. i'll be countin' every mile,
And that one: "O my son, be not displeased
Said the little paper boy, there on the street
if e'er thou see again the lovely plain,
The things you didn't calculate
in that I answered him in this strain only:
Lord I've tried and I've tried
takes from the very place in which I sinned
There just ain't nobody knows what I go through
according as my Escort had informed me;
There's no room in my heart for the blues
that in revenge dost deal such blows as these!
And if it all were true
for she makes both my veins and pulses tremble!"
And then I jumped in the river, but the doggone river was dry
I, who now have thee go, am Beatrice;
And that's the only thing that counts
past all resistance by the minds of men;
Yipsy-doodle, (Rootie Tootie)
thou dive, but o'er the pitch shall beat my wings;
When tears come down
with one half of their bodies towered up
There's nothin' as sweet as my baby
he claws the spirits, flays and quarters them.
Once he was fair and once he was young
Canto VII
and in a file, between it and the bank,
Where a living death is all that's left for men with broken hearts
to whom, thereafter, if thou wouldst ascend,
That the saints have travelled on
that most men from his secrets I withheld;
And live with Christ ever more.
up to the river I abstained from speech.
Well, I went upon the mountain - I looked down in the sea
on burning paper which is not yet black,
You know I miss you, now that you're gone
bidding thee lick the mirror of Narcissus."
but a tear came and he whispered, "I want my parents too".
a nose, and thickened suitably its lips.
God called dad to go
If to know who I am concern thee so,
Long is the road that leads you
by twitching more than all the rest, his mates,"
Rock my cradle once again.
that in revenge dost deal such blows as these!
We'll go Honky Tonkin' 'round this town.
This we ascended with the greatest ease,
Each night when the pale moon is shining
so, one by one, the evil seed of Adam
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you...
Bowstring ne'er shot an arrow from itself,
Move it on over (move it on over)
be all revolved. Into a well like this
It's his last earthly treasure but he stakes it
that it would yield a path for one above;
They nailed his hands there on the cross
said I to him, "on this express condition,
To spend eternity
to whom, thereafter, if thou wouldst ascend,
Soon I'll cross that dark river
Such as the Carisenda seems, when viewed
On an outcast, soon no one will save
although this trench goes round eleven miles,
I'm leaving now
The cities of Lamone and Santerno
for water... cool, clear water.
offends God least, and hence receives least blame?
I've sent your saddle home.
by reason of the distance, and so high
Someone has fell by the way
and tournaments and tilting-matches fought;
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain.
but said, in opposition to the rest:
No matter how I struggle and strive
Canto VIII
I pocketed up there, and here myself.
I gave up my friends, I left my home
with both its middle feet it clasped his paunch,
Cry, oh, lord.
my Teacher said, "and see if thou perceive him."
No matter how I struggle and strive
I did not die, nor yet remained alive;
The silence of a falling star
o'er which it spreads, and, making it a marsh,
How come you treat me like a worn out shoe
See Farinata who has risen there;
Way up in heaven above
sits where the shore lies lowest round about.
There all my fears and tears were lost
As he who by the bears avenged himself,
HOW CAN YOU REFUSE HIM NOW, HOW CAN YOU REFUSE HIM NOW,
"who hath his head within, and plies his legs
You tried to make her blue
he talks about the frog and mouse; for "˜now'
And late in the evening
it said to me, "recall me, if thou canst;
When the sun was low
When Cerberus, the mighty worm, perceived us,
You said that you no longer loved me
by reason of our speech and of our mind,
Faded love and winter roses always bloom in memory
my garment's hem, exclaimed: "How wonderful!"
The congregation's waitin' for the preacher
even such a structure seemed I now to see;
And i don't feel too sure
this mass of rock had not yet fallen down.
Then the Angel's chief musicians teach that little boy a song
be this a witness undeceiving all!
Get the supper on the table
for in the third great trench your station is!
I prayed in my heart I would never be found
it seemed as if their nimble legs were wings.
That the old-time religion was real
things that are far from us; to that extent
All these years how I've loved you
and often take the color from our faces;
You never would admit you were mis-tak-en
performs the journey whereupon I go.
So slide it on over (move it on over)
and Mantuans with respect to fatherland.
That for every fallen woman there's a hundred fallen men
at thy sweet will dost speak!" they all replied.
Would you stand and shout his name or bow your head in shame
Canto IX
But now, lest thou enjoy this sight of me,
We'll go and lose them blues
And he to me: "The honorable fame,
I can't fool my cryin' heart
the cold, and from his eyes, his saddened heart
Callin' You?, (Callin' You?)
it said to me, "recall me, if thou canst;
And call my name
O'er those dead bones of hers they built a town;
The bees got mad - and they left the hive
and said: "Off yonder, thou malicious bird!"
Baby, rock, rock on down the line
a noise like nothing other than a wind,
Honky tonk blues,
as the disciple him who teaches; hence,
I'll be locked here in this cell
which did not seem less hard, upon his face,
Now I went down to the bank this morning,
nor different is the speed with which a duck
And that's all she wrote, Dear John,
and tied together in a knot in front.
A neighbor was passing my garden one time
"but what I died for doth not bring me here.
She's sweeter than wine and brother she's mine
Through me one goes into the town of woe,
Enchantment strange as the blue up above
much clearer was my vision toward the bottom,
Gentlemen of the jury the judge's speech began
he led me in among the hidden things.
She changed the lock on my front door
the Teacher I beheld of those that know,
I could say it's over now
when by the first blows smitten! Certainly
By the singin' waterfall
and in proportion to it were his other bones;
Calling for you (my brother) don't turn away (from Jesus)
And he: "Thou knowest that the place is round,
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
so fiercely mad did Athamas become,
It's on its way to heaven now
fitted to claw him well, they both fell down
I could give you all the blame
and thus was causing pain to three of them.
I'm not gonna worry wrinkles in my brow
and both of these, if one would tell the truth,
In this world I'm left to wander
who, moving with exceedingly slow steps,
where there's no quest
Canto X
encircle castles for the walls' protection,
There just ain't nobody knows what I go through
But follow me now, for I please to go;
Rootie Tootie, (Rootie Tootie)
so made the heavens, and so gave guides to them,
Lord you better keep it on your mind
Thereat my Teacher over his right cheek
I'll tell you right now I've had enough of that
when he had turned him to the right, we passed
And his eyes they brightly sparkle at the pretty things he view
who metals falsified by alchemy;
You're Gonna Change or I'm a-gonna leave.
before I speak of it. But if my words
But someday you'll wish that I still care.
was he, for whom, Gavillí«, thou dost weep.
I'm going home, I'm going home
The latter so oppressed me with the fear
I knew she was part of, his happier years
whither, when lost, he went away to die."
with a manner sort of awkward and countenance grotesque.
"So may your memory never fly away
I feel so sorry for you Hank,
which out of rotting limbs is wont to come.
My head was swelled up so doggone big I couldn't get it through my front door
he stands on that, than on the other foot.
Leave the road of sin alone
out of her senses, barked as would a dog;
So why should we try anymore
carries the spirits onward with its sweep,
I never knew i loved you so;
in fashion; these he flapped in such a way,
All I do is sit and cry
Democritus, who thinks the world chance-born,
It's hard to know another's lips will kiss you
even by the God it was not thine to know,
Some people struggle for riches
whose means are small for taking in so much.
Just another guy on the lost highway
and though a long way thou hast gone already,
And He gave His life completely to bring a better day
and in whose walls still others must be locked,
Never on this earth to meet no more.
But she is blest, and gives no heed to that;
He likes everything from a soup to hay
from one of those ark-tombs; hence I, in fear,
All my dreams have died and vanished
When Juno, on account of Semele,
And i don't feel too sure
Canto XI
Teacher," said I on rising, "talk to me
Both footsore and weary I rested awhile
And were it not for this, that I am still
I'll wake up tomorrow, with tears in my eyes
Its soil was of a dense and arid sand,
Where they meet you and they greet you,
Nor far this side of where I fell asleep
Them jumpin honky tonk blues,
Let us go on, for it is willed in Heaven
HE CRIED THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND,
even by the verses of this Comedy,
Darlin' if our romance ends let us be the best of friends
or e'er thou trust me to the arduous course.
AND WHEN YA JUST ABOUT TO DOSE...FLY TROUBLE
Thou hast with such desire disposed my heart
Now, honey, let's go honky tonkin'
as in this dim light I perceive they are."
Now I know I'll never find another sweetheart
that I may see Saint Peter's Gate, and those
You don't dress up in satin,
those whom the wind drives, those the rain beats down,
Someone has fell by the way
as far as where our human form begins.
And you cheated on me from the start.
untilled and naked of inhabitants.
For always when we'd step aside she'd call and we'd reply
people I saw immersed in excrement,
'Cause I won't be home no more.
one stood before me filled with mud, and said:
We're getting closer to the grave each day
the Flemings make between Witsand and Bruges,
Any time you wanna go
Make us not go to Tí¬tyus or to Tí¬pheus;
Just listen to the whistle, it'll thrill you one and all,
their villages and strongholds to defend,
Just listen to the whistle, it'll thrill you one and all,
and signalled to it to approach the edge,
I Told A Lie To My Heart.
necessity is leading him, not pleasure.
Ready to live in Paradise
And he to me: "The eternal fire within
And then I took her in my arms,
but I can not suppress it here; hence, Reader,
That I should be ashamed to take you 'round
And with his arms he then embraced my neck,
I know that you'll never be true
Although this cursí¨d folk shall nevermore
Just stay close to Jesus and journey in His light
Canto XII
On my return to consciousness, which closed
Oh, the woman on our party line's the nosiest thing
This is Megaera here upon the left;
Where the soul........never dies.
that one is high, and low the following one;
Shake it on over (move it on over)
shalt thou have us, than while we cross the swamp."
In anger, unkind words are said that make the teardrops start
for though she breed chelỳdri, jí culi,
I really learned the meaning of living and loving I've been down that road before
or layman's head it were, was not apparent.
My helper, he quit - for the lack of pay
"O thou benign and gracious living creature,
When time goes crawling by
in the beginning moved those beauteous things;
Then suddenly I got that old time feeling
both of the world, and of the vice and worth
She left this world with a smile on her face
he firmly grasped the shaggy flanks, and then
You got me chasin Rabbits, pickin' out rings and Howlin' At The Moon
in Mongibello's smithy black with smoke,
Katy, she's waitin' at the garden gate
or less become, or burn the same as now."
What will you do; when the Saviour ain't nigh
was Alp-like, and, through what was also there,
And now we've reached the hour of parting
lowered before their eyes, and cut like those
My lips could tell a lie, but my heart would know
began again: "Why dost thou break me off?
It offers you temptation
right in my Master's face, who stayed outside,
Now we'll forever be apart
On coming up to us, they watched me long
"So please buy a paper from me
let those dull people think, who do not see
If you go to the city then you will find me there
unless the features which thou hast are false,
Now I know I'll never find another sweetheart
to that town which I have well stocked therewith;
Too many broken vows and promises
He is much further on, whom thou wouldst see,
The little paper boy who died in the snow
I saw his arms withdraw into his armpits,
Till we dance to the waltz of the wind
Ah, why, hard earth, didst thou not open up?
She's strong as she can be,
hatred toward him thou eatest, tell me why,"
There's no use to try anymore
Canto XIII
as if to say: "I 'd have thee speak no more;"
You thought she'd care for you and so you acted smart
As the Sicilian bull (which bellowed first
That dreams will soon come true
I reached a region silent of all light,
Well, you're just in time to celebrate
this flame would stay without another quiver;
But nobody's lonesome for me
to flee from him, what is on this side seen
So blue the nights, so blue the days
"It seldom comes to pass that one of us
But it can't chill my heart
one waiting thus, as oft, while one frog stays,
And i know there's some one waitin', with the sweetest how you are,
seemed to be made of glass and not of water.
You'll stand in God's Kingdom, When The Book Of Life Is Read.
the lovely world, and set them at this fray;
Where the cotton grows and the suwanee flows,
that I with both a single purpose formed.
But your wife has done been in,
nailed up; whereat, without a word, I looked
In a little country village
and if, of these, one showed a limb pierced through,
You have no right to be the judge to criticize and condemn
See how he makes a bosom of his shoulders;
I'VE WALKED THE FLOOR 'TILL I'VE WORE OUT MY SHOES,
If yonder thou attain, thou 'lt clearly see
I wonder, I wonder - what she's thinking of
When we were where it hollows out below,
Then i know what you're dreamin' of
encircled and sustained me with his arms;
Now I ain't just talkin' to hear myself cause I've been down that road before
The other sank, and then rose doubled up;
I'm waitin' for a woman - That ain't got no man.
some one whom we may know by deed or name,
You're Gonna Change or I'm a-gonna leave.
whence I: "Their meaning, Teacher, troubles me."
No need for you to set alone,
except the stubborn devils who came out
In spring I'll wait for roses red when fades the lilacs bloom
" against me this one seemed to be advancing
'Cause it knows I need you so
When we had gone so far ahead, that now
To the tune of the ALABAMA WALTZ.
attention here!" His finger then he raised.
I'm like a weepin-willow, while we're apart
even as my Leader had commanded me,
Such a beautiful dream
Canto XIV
Thereat the common back was broken up,
You don't wear diamond rings,
Ere now have I seen cavalry break camp,
In this world of grief and sorrow
like flakes of snow that fall on windless Alps.
Upsy-daisy, (Rootie Tootie)
When once its water gathers head to run,
So this world would not be lost
And he to me: "Return thou to thy science,
It's that Pan American on her way to New Or-leans.
Why dost thou lodge such baseness in thy heart,
I picked her up in a pickup truck
"Look at that great man there, who, as he comes,
(So) never again will I knock on your door
and he that lives without attaining it,
And see her love turn into sympathy
from off his back, but brought me to the hole
Run along run along don't you pester me further
through all that day, or through the following night,
every day and every night
by demon force, which pulls him to the ground,
So I'll say goodbye dear till tomorrow
Even as at Arles, where marshy turns the Rhone,
So why should we try anymore
one crucified by three stakes on the ground.
Oh! Lord his burdens are greater than mine.
a sinner he was crushing with his teeth,
Oh heavenly Father, help me understand
that for thy sake he left the common herd?
And from way out in the darkness, see that headlight gleam
they then made off with those his suffering limbs.
Yes, his burdens are greater than mine.
His head is formed of finest gold, his arms
He begged for the crumbs from the rich man to eat
to feel how much whoever passes weighs.
And drive your buggy back to town
it harmed thee not, when in the dark wood's depths."
Darling let's turn back my years and go back to yesterday
"Ye that are pressing thus your breasts together,
Let Jesus lead you home
not of the rest, for they should not be feared.
Gently rocked my baby cradle
I stopped, and two I saw, whose faces showed
How come you treat me like a worn out shoe
if from the hospitals of Val di Chiana,
Oh, please understand.
but, as I told him, his own spitefulness
In the world's mighty gallery of pictures
Canto XV
except the stubborn devils who came out
I picked her up in a pickup truck
whoever of your world deprives himself,
Are gathered to weep
't is not enough, for they did not have baptism,
Like falling rain
And she to me: "There is no greater pain
When I get to Glory I'll see no more
over the bank which girds it round about,
and don't go to criticizn' the one what knows the best.
and of those, too, that in its fangs it holds."
That's home sweet home to me,
there, save Bonturo, every one 's a grafter;
There'll be great signs in Heaven, in the sun, the moon, the stars.
all chosen iron is he down from there,
And keep the homefires burnin'
even so who governs France shall yield to this."
To hide its face and cry
To him who was in front of us the biting
Through valleys, o'er mountains and plains
whence all my guilt I bring, pray tell me whether
You got me chasin' Rabbits, walkin' on my hands
bowed down and closed, when brightened by the sun,
It hurts me to know you are unhappy
the earliest wealthy Father took from thee!"
There all my fears and tears were lost
for, as I thought it over, I gave up
Louiville Nashville Montgomery the cap'tal of Ala-bam
Hence, that my Leader might give heed, I placed
You got me chasin' Rabbits, pullin' out my hair and Howlin' At The Moon.
who then takes charge of it, until its time
And you're at your journey's end
than these, there were no human spirits saved."
How come you treat me like a worn out shoe
with cheerful face, whence I was comforted,
This trial on earth was for my soul
give fame to thee on earth, since he is living,
When I know you don't love me
"That imp is Gianni Schicchi who, enraged,
And I won't be home no more.
he had to show assurance in his face.
Got nothin' to kill to put in the smokehouse
"O thou benign and gracious living creature,
You've reached your journey's end
which was not marked by any path whatever.
And temptation comes your way
When half way through the journey of our life
The first scene is that of a gambler
Canto XVI
in water partly, partly on the land;
I'm traveling in the light
with novel hues, and generated hair
I know I'd still want you-oooo-oo
of Her whose lovely eyes see everything,
My head was swelled up so doggone big I couldn't get it through my front door
because, ere one return in front of him,
I got a feelin' called the blues, oh Lord
"In this thing I was not alone, nor surely
"The bad girl who lived down the street."
that Cervia it o'ercovers with its wings.
I covered the crushed, broken body and said:
pray tell me why so pitiless toward mine
Said the little paper boy, there on the street
which from its bed removeth every plant.
But nobody dreams about me
and who, when by a sudden fear unmanned,
I'll meet my loved ones there, in that land so bright and fair
him to this punishment that fault condemns;
That for every fallen woman there's a hundred fallen men
there Socrates and Plato I beheld,
Callin' You?, (Callin' You?)
because all speech would be of small avail.
Last night I dreamed of heaven and I saw my mother there
"Dost thou think, Malacoda," said my Teacher,
There's no room in my memory for tears
but said, in opposition to the rest:
Now she don't get my rockin' chair
When him in that vast wilderness I saw,
I'm sittin' here waitin' for you right now
and if another troop should meet you, cause it
I kept my vows you left me all alone
and, without caring for repose, went up,
I remember how my Savior died
wherewith the first trench was completely filled.
But nobody's crazy 'bout me
When at the bridge's very foot he was,
And I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Livin'.
save by the wind below and in my face.
Till we dance to the waltz of the wind
and raising the depraved, afflicts the world.
If you take time to look
Thereafter I beheld a thousand faces
I've got a blue love in my heart
And he to me: 'T is well to know of some;
I've sent your saddle home.
bring us and our requests into contempt,
And stop this burnin', yearnin' while we're apart
Canto XVII
We turned our backs upon the woeful vale
My heart is dead and yet i'm living
is joined thereto, whence special trust is born;
In my dreams you're still my only darlin'
is going through the kingdom of the dead?"
Praise the Lord I saw the light.
each on the thorn-tree of its hostile shade."
I'm going home, I'm going home
And he: "Thou knowest that the place is round,
And so my poor dear mourners let your hearts with Jesus rest
the shade of him who through his cowardice
There'll be no tear-dimmed eyes
not without fear do I resolve to speak;
Then I'll stop moanin'; Moa-oanin' The Blues.
And we rejoiced; but soon our happiness
You know, we finally call him the "Old Man"
through all that day, or through the following night,
You know she didn't ask to be brought to
and gone the sight of all things save the beast.
Jesus is calling, calling night and day
to one who to the world would e'er return,
I'm lost on the river
the Romagnoles are having peace or war;
And the soul of man never dies
Art thou so quickly sated with the wealth,
In the distance hear her moanin' hear her lonesome whistle scream
stands still at all, lies prone a hundred years,
Too many times I've watched my castles fall
was wont to bellow with the voice of him
Will you please make up your mind what you want me to do
where they are wont, a gimlet of their teeth.
You never shut your mouth until I blow my top
"My son, within these rocks," he then began,
(Mind your own business)
more fiercely after us, than doth a dog
Faded love and winter roses always bloom in memory
excess of stench the deep abyss exhales,
A long time ago
and ope mine eyes!" And yet I oped them not,
I'm hoping and praying someday to return
into this ditch, since when they have not turned,
Where the redeemed of God shall stand
forever in that timelessly dark air,
Down beneath the clay
or other inhibition binding man,
That's why we're so far apart
holding the bounds of both the hemispheres,
Now you're gone, our love could never be
Canto XVIII
thou now art come beneath the hemisphere
And drive your buggy back to town
the nature of the place shoots forth, I 'd say
This is all I can say
and said: "Go on, for I am strong and bold!"
So why should we try anymore
a while he looked at me, then bowed his head,
The jug runs dry and still I cry
When I had heard those sorely troubled souls,
Said don't make me no coffee Babe,
From that time onward snakes have been my friends,
While she's circlin' through the canyons, can't you see that mountain stream
Not yet had Nessus reached the other side,
I'll be locked here in this cell
was quiet and erect, and now away from us
Why, oh why do we keep tryin'
When they were somewhat pacified again,
The beachcomber's waitin' for the ride. (tide)
When once its water gathers head to run,
And i don't feel too sure
by help of one who now is "˜on the fence.'
I told them all we were meant for each other
There never was an earthquake strong enough
If you'll just travel in His light and pray both day and night
when looking for an advantageous grip,
Was the only daughter of an en-gin-eer,
to bring thence confirmation in the faith,
While the angels tend the garden of the big plantation ground.
doth any of that first grade e'er descend,
he was some mothers darlin, he was some mothers son
I said: "If, Teacher, thou hide not thyself
And she broke this heart of mine
O happy he whom He thereto elects!"
When the road is rocky and you're carrying the load wait for the light to shine
thou dive, but o'er the pitch shall beat my wings;
So shove it on over (move it on over)
that blood, until it only cooked their feet;
If you're thinkin' of me like i'm thinkin' of you
"So may your seed eventually repose,"
And longs for the love he can't replace.
Pyrrhus, and Sextus; and forever milks
My heart is dead and yet i'm living
and to mine ancestors, and to my party,
Just listen to the whistle, it'll thrill you one and all,
When, just before the morning, I awoke,
I knew you'd wake up and find her missin'
fly to the other bank; on both sides then
Worries and fears I claimed for my own
Canto XIX
lost both his ears, with face still lowered, said:
All my life I've been so lonesome
As sails, when swollen by the wind, fall down
Cause I know you're living in sorrow
of guilt rolled by, and great Achilles see,
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
and, were not for the fire, which, arrow-like,
Here with the shadows around me
he firmly grasped the shaggy flanks, and then
You're just in time to change your tune
none waited for the second, or the third.
The fairest young maiden that I ever saw
while in the present ye do otherwise."
If you missed me half as much as I miss you
horned demons with great scourges I beheld,
Lost on the river
He who was lying down thrusts forth his muzzle,
From the Dear Saviour; who's pleading today
because it let him scuffle with the other;
(Mind your own business)
this from the next trench caused a voice to come,
Tonight my darlin's sleepin'
that with such parts as these may be compared.
I'm taking everything except my ball and chain
"who took to bloodshed and to plundering.
FATHER FORGIVE THEM PLEASE.
to learn who that wretch is, who thus
Once I was happy as I could be
of higher rank then thou believest him.
The log train is silent
Night was already seeing all the stars
I've grown so used to you somehow
before it flows into its lowly bed,
I heard that lonesome whistle blow
had through its opening shown me many a moon
With a welcome on the door
seems not unfitting to a thoughtful man;
We live in two different worlds, dear
Then to all wisdom's Sea I turned around,
And then I heard her whisper
and all that was there once, could not avail
Don't come back now It is too late
whereby and how did Love concede to you
I WENT TO THE RIVER, BUT THE WATER'S TOO COLD,
new torments all around me I behold,
You knock me down and then you pick me up
It seems, if well I hear, that ye behold
We'll meet in heaven some glad day. ...
Canto XX
Then, after she had spoken to me thus,
Weeping as they lay my darling
and, thus embarassed, we abandoned them.
The maiden wore her beads and braids and hoped someday he'd talk
is kindled under steel, to double pain.
And I know a spot right over the hill
and always seems to look ahead; ev'n so,
My trial on earth is over now
in soul he bathes already in Cocytus,
But mosey around with my head in my hands
caused us to turn our eyes up toward its tip,
A haul right off and count with me
before we issue from the marshy lake."
We've known so much of happiness we've had our cup of joy
I gathered up the scattered twigs and leaves,
And out in the darkness the whippoorwills cry.
O ye in whom intelligence is sound,
Let's honky tonk all night
Go on now, since we two have but one will;
I went to the country - just the other day
before the kindred couple's piteous case,
Ever since the day you set me free
the glowing summit of the lofty tower,
Say hey, good lookin' - what ya got cookin'?
fall thou upon my head a thousand times."
The blues come around when the sun goes down
from one of those ark-tombs; hence I, in fear,
Old cupid just gave us a shove
My Leader stopped; and I to him, who still
But we'll meet again some day.
so likewise with my wearied strength did I;
Our story's so old again has been told
There on the green enamel opposite
But I know she waits and prays
O blind cupidity, O foolish wrath,
Then Jesus came like a stranger in the night
go on with them, for they will not be bad."
But where I go, I always know
wander so far from that which is its wont,
You only build me up to let me down
for I full thirty spans of him perceived,
The mean old freight train blues.
thought it advisable for us to leave.
There all my fears and tears were lost
it harmed thee not, when in the dark wood's depths."
The time now ain't long; when the Saviour will come
he 'll not prevent our going down this rock."
And think of my darlin'
Canto XXI
I thereupon arose, and showed myself
That showed thru the darkest of nights.
A longer stairway must be climbed; 't is not
Will you please make up your mind
And then he said: "It now is time for us
Yes I knew the day I lost you
While I was gazing fixedly down yonder,
And ever since she tore 'em down
Deidamí¬a, dead, still mourns Achilles;
And I'm lo-o-onesome
which knows not man! Bethink you of the seed
If tomorrow never comes and the sun don't ever shine
The many people and unheard-of wounds
Where will you live after death
now one and now another, till their branch
A long time ago
Oh, how dismayed that Curio seemed to me,
So I don't care if tomorrow never comes.
All tongues would certainly fall short of it,
When your soul is weary and it seems you've lost your way
so likewise Geryon set us down below,
Someone has fell by the way
my town had its beginning otherwise,
And i know i'll not be lonesome,
but I beheld him with his legs held up.
NO NOT NOW, BUT MAYBE NEXT WEEK SOME - HOW.
Paris and Tristan see;" and then he showed me,
The whole night through
while d' Abbagliato squandered all his sense.
All the sunshine, all is gone
my Teacher and, behind his shoulders, I.
Last night I walked the floor
whence I: "Their meaning, Teacher, troubles me."
Well when I woke up this mornin',
"O ye that in a single flame are two,
Won't you sometimes think of me
There is a Gentle Lady up in Heaven,
To live forever more, just o'er on heaven's shore
its center hath, and on which Dis is seated,
But then you changed dear, you found someone new
And ever without resting was the dance
I made a mistake, dear, by tellin' you lies
the livid-colored stone was full of holes,
That's just a picture from life's other side
Among my menials he must needs descend,
Where all is joy, peace and love
I 'm placed thus low, because 't was I who robbed
I know you're alone with your pride dear
Canto XXII
I swooned away as though about to die,
If you ever need me, oh please let me know
I, seeing Heaven so well disposed toward thee,
He'll ne'er know my name nor my face
the hollow cup beneath the brow. And though,
If she drinks while you taught her and if she smokes you showed her how
though not with either Saracens or Jews,
I'm gonna tuck my worries underneath my arm
was angry with the royal blood of Thebes,
And writes my soul the message He wants me to know
dost thou stand there already, Boniface?
Oh so humble you should be when they come passing by
were shown to me the spirits of the great,
HOW CAN YOU REFUSE JESUS NOW.
to bring thence confirmation in the faith,
Someone has fell by the way
my Teacher and, behind his shoulders, I.
Jesus is calling, calling night and day
how I can Palestrina overthrow.
God only knows how it hurts me
by one of them; and instantly I said:
And she broke this heart of mine
"In this thing I was not alone, nor surely
I'm a rollin stone all alone and lost
"came any ever, by his own deserts,
I wandered so aimless life filled with sin
If yonder thou attain, thou 'lt clearly see
Lord you better keep it on your mind
might each his blessing give, if there he went.
I said "I'll go down, take a look at the crowd
"if from this wilderness thou wouldst escape;
I'll pretend I'm free from sorrow
the wounds thus made have all been closed again.
Are you walkin and a-talkin with the lord?
the banks, which are not burned, afford a path;
The snow falls 'round my window
of riches that are put in Fortune's care,
Like echoes from the blue
Then of a sudden standing up, he cried:
The child was unhurt and my neighbor cried out:
And in that part through which our nourishment
Then you cry and ask the judge won't you please turn him loose
and Rachel, too, for whom he did so much,
Get the supper on the table
so twisted, that the weeping of the eyes
For the love that's beating there
down here by magic of that wild Erí¬chtho,
To Canaan's land I'm on my way
Canto XXIII
for Yes and No contend within my head.
So baby, just come along with me
these wrought their spells with herbs and images.
Her mama said: "No-o, she's my only daughter,"
Weeping itself allows not weeping there,
It seems that fate has made a vow
thou hadst in keeping in the joyful life,
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain.
their burden and the narrow path delayed them.
Then the gods would deny you on the great judgement day.
of traitor to thee in thy castle-towns,
Never was much fun to me
so that an otter he appeared to me.
It rides on rails of fear
gnawed in it by the water's spiral course,
When you're home and darlin'
where that vale ended which had pierced my heart
just waiting by your telephone
each member of this company anew,
As I stood alone, with mem'ries of home
and were it now, it would not be too soon;
You pass right through then all when your New Orleans bound.
I, trusting him, was seized, and afterward
Packin' and unpackin' your junk
He answered: "As thou see'st, I 'm one who weeps."
Today as she walked arm in arm
seemed to be made of glass and not of water.
So this world would not be lost
beneath, for I 'm for more of them returning
Ev'rybody's yearnin' for somebody else
divides itself, while in the other case,
No matter how I struggle and strive
"here 's one of Santa Zita's Ancients! Put him
No use to sit at home and fine
till on the world another sun had dawned.
He smiled as we parted, cause he didn't know
While we were speeding through the stagnant trench,
I'll even make believe I never loved you
if in the lovely life I judged aright;
It's hard to know another's lips will kiss you
were foreordained unto the holy place,
Over there on that other shore.
and by disprizing Nature and His Goodness;
Why sometimes when we'd stay away till one or two or three
Ser Branca d' Oria is, and many years
I got a feelin' called the blues, oh Lord
would fain excuse myself, and all the while
Said the little paper boy, there on the street
Canto XXIV
As yonder o'er Charybdis doth the sea,
Are the pictures from life's other side
so this one called on me, as master-leech,
YOU HAVE TREATED ME SO BAD,
when at the stars he gazed, or at the sea.
And i know there's some one waitin', with the sweetest how you are,
But when he saw that I did not withdraw,
Waitin' for a call from a big quiz show
we ever reached the lofty tower's foot,
And call my name
with their own selves, nor let them touch the plant,
Ready to live in Paradise
not knowing what to do; then later on
The roses have faded, there's frost at my door
that so dost in our short life goad us on,
Those Broadway roses and prevalent sounds at too many parties and too many pals
stands still at all, lies prone a hundred years,
For I know that you'll never be true
the Phoenix dies, and then is born again,
To supply our every need
Soon as my Leader and I were in the boat,
It was there I knew I'd love you forever
so eager to advance the cubs, that wealth
So if you wanna have fun, come along with me
that those which Frederick clothed men with were straw.
The moon just went behind the clouds
he asked me for advice, but I kept still,
And when I'm go-one and at my grave you stand
in Mongibello's smithy black with smoke,
The mean old freight train blues.
immediately stood up, and said to me:
I'll cry myself to sleep and wake up smiling
hence I, intent ahead, unbar mine eyes.
So run along, I know that you don't want me
how I could ever keep my own face dry,
You may ramble and ramble this whole wide world over
he heard the things which of his victory
He begged for the crumbs from the rich man to eat
Then "Oh," said I to him, "so may the other
Because she worshipped you
related, and heard mentioned, with regard.
Praying for sight
About strange punishments must I make verses,
Like the flowers in May, she withered away
he 'll not prevent our going down this rock."
And to those who weep death comes cheap these men with broken hearts
to arm him so with food, lest stress of snow
When I argue back you pack and leave and when I don't you pout in grieve
Canto XXV
justly doth every woe proceed from him.
And no matter how much you boast and brag you can still learn a thing or two
and certainly my trust had been confirmed,
I have no place on this earth to call home
he thus is called by my high Tragedy;
Don't say you care, you know that you'll be lying
cried: "As I was alive, such am I dead!
Don't hurt me more, show my heart some respect.
and bloody slaver trickled o'er three chins.
I'm lost on the river
I and my Leader then passed further on
But I'm satisfied with you.
Before your grappling hooks take hold of me,
HOW CAN YOU REFUSE HIM NOW, HOW CAN YOU REFUSE HIM NOW,
About strange punishments must I make verses,
Why don't you say the things you used to say
were turned to Aesop's fable, that wherein
Though his leg was very crippled
so fiercely mad did Athamas become,
It looks to me like I been cheated out of my rib
How justly, too, thy virtue makes awards!
Well, I said I would leave if you didn't change
they spoke but seldom and with gentle voice.
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
that it would be too much, wert thou alive?"
You'll be moanin' and a groanin',
When we had read of how the longed-for smile
Grab your dancin' shoes
she turns her sphere, and blest enjoys herself.
I still recall his words today.
that haste were more becoming thee than them."
I can't buy no beer.
he looks behind, and backward goes his way.
I can't escape from you.
and who, when by a sudden fear unmanned,
As I brushed your arm and walked so close to you
As champions oiled and nude are wont to do,
'Cause it knows I need you so
lowered before their eyes, and cut like those
I'm like a weepin-willow, while we're apart
the company, on whom Cí ccia d' Ascií n
Your daddy's mad; He's done got pee-eeved
descended hither from my blessí¨d seat,
In the distance hear her moanin' hear her lonesome whistle scream
now falls each star that rose when I set out,
Are you doin' this for spite
where I with ancient Rachel had my seat.
If today the sun should set on all my hopes and cares
Canto XXVI
"My son," the courteous Teacher said to me,
I'll look swell but you'll look sweller settin' the woods on fire
for he of fostering Rome and of her sway
Honky Tonkin', Honey Baby
there Socrates and Plato I beheld,
Thank God for ev'ry flower and each tree
And he shall drive her out of every town,
It's beautiful to see
of what thou wouldst; for they, since Greeks they were,
Sayin' mama please come home
the coin on which the Baptist's form is stamped;
All his treasures of diamonds and gold
Love, which soon seizes on a well-born heart,
And there's trouble in your soul
And he to me: "The honorable fame,
When you're home and darlin'
and girds him with his tail as many times,
We're gonna have a new baby about the first of May
thou oughtest to be feared, who readeth here
Now I know I'll never find another sweetheart
that for its sake I lost both sleep and strength.
Now Jonah got along in the belly of the whale,
that at his feet he dropped his grappling hook,
I was walking in Savannah past a church decayed and dim
up in the world by his un-natural son."
Walk slowly down that long long path for soon I'll follow you
The heavens, in order not to be less fair,
If it had two pair of pants I would burn the coat
that in the second ring thou art, and wilt be,
I'll never see that gal of mine
upon the ground he stretched it to depart.
Last night I dreamed of heaven the land of eternal life
and thus like crystal visors wholly fill
No more darkness no more night
as thou perceivest in this nether Hell."
She just couldn't stand my disgrace
fastened upon his roasted face mine eyes,
You're Window Shoppin' that's all.
on this ring's edge hath it appeared to us?"
Jesus died for me long ago
the arms he plied he moveth now no more."
The river of life
"to where thou sayest usury offends
Way up in heaven above
such on that gloomy slope did I become;
Yes, i'm goin' back to dixie, that's the place i long to be,
and I, too, recommend him to thy care.'
What's the use to deny we've been living a lie
Canto XXVII
Focaccia; nor this fellow here, whose head
One you say, and ten I see
a windmill looks when seen from far away;
When all dead in Christ shall rise
that with thine eyes thou quite attain the face
I'm so lonesome I could cry
before the shore reveal itself to thee;
That you're ready to meet
and backward through his head withdraws his ears,
United in God's Kingdom, When The Book Of Life Is Read.
but I left none apparent there just now.
All I do is sit and sigh, oh Lord
from circle unto circle down through Hell;
Are you walkin and a-talkin with the lord?
Upon his shoulders right behind his nape
When the Pale Horse and his rider goes by?
Down at its bottom naked were the sinners;
And I buried my heart with her
for thereupon one coiled around his neck,
But one word led to another
or been a merchant in the Soldan's land;
Why don't you spark me like you used to do
though shortly lasts the temper of her pen;
Why don't you write to me and say;
the first time I was grieved on thy account.
I like candy, I like cake, I like jam but goodness sake
he said to me, "brings out upon my face
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
into the middle of the boiling fen.
Words that you told me
when, after laying hold on me, he said:
When you know I love you so
thou that, though breathing, go'st to see the dead!
This old log train
with waters and green leaves, was Ida called;
Her time has come to go
which fortify that region comfortless;
So baby, just come along with me
and let the country clown his mattock ply!"
That's home sweet home to me,
speaking at greater length than I repeat,
On the dixie cannonball, on the dixie cannonball,
before my age had rounded out its noon.
dollar weighs ten, dollar weighs ten
began to quiver with a murmuring sound,
She said, "son, please don't leave me
O happy he whom He thereto elects!"
With your dying breath
Canto XXVIII
whence, had there been more light, the next ravine
Those Broadway roses and prevalent sounds at too many parties and too many pals
has been; Polenta's eagle so broods there,
I heard the angels singing songs of peace and rest
which caused a trembling in the eternal air;
How He brought salvation when He made me whole
there they lament the trick, because of which
For He's coming someday, to bear your soul away
My kindly Teacher then began to say:
the boys all whistle when she walks by.
I went along in thought; and he: "Perchance
And the love light no longer shines
emblazoned with an azure pregnant sow,
I remember back when you were nice and sweet
Then with a gentler mien he turned to me,
And scat right back to my pappy's farm
then with its teeth it wounded both his cheeks;
Rootie Tootie, she's my Thursday gal.
together with the bodies they have left
Now gentlemen that's my story my testimony stands
as round the former is the dismal moat;
We'll let bygones be forgotten souvenirs
both of the road and of the sympathy,
That's home sweet home to me,
there was no lamentation, saving sighs
For He's coming someday, to bear your soul away
with greater haste I therefore begged the spirit
And now we've reached the hour of parting
the frightful mouth, to which no sweeter psalms
Just a little old shanty by a railroad track,
"˜A sinner of the thievish fire is this,'
I could hate you for theway I'm feelin'
o'er which it spreads, and, making it a marsh,
As though his heart would break
on this side of the angel-trumpet's sound.
There was a time when I believed that you belonged to me
with the lament of him, and that was right,
I heard that lonesome whistle blow
to see him get a ducking in this broth,
If you're lovin' me like i'm lovin' you
a devil in his body, as did also
Lord I've tried and I've tried
so high or thick, whoe'er he may have been.
This prisoner here before you is a social enemy
A few lay on the ground upon their backs;
Sinner hear me when I say
the peasant, lacking provender, gets up,
I watched my dream world crumble like clay
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then, sighing, and with weeping voice, he said:
LORD THEY'RE KILLIN' ME, I MEAN THEM LOW DOWN BLUES.
Lethe thou 'lt see, but there, outside this cave,
And let someone trouble your mind
Of those things only should one be afraid,
To spend eternity
then we with full assurance toward the town,
Oh! Lord I see his burdens are greater than mine.
Here tears are shed because of heartless wrongs;
I'll crawl back to her on my knees
through me one goes into eternal pain,
Rootie Tootie, (Rootie Tootie)
Scolding, he said: "Why greedier art thou
for water... cool, clear water.
so yearning a desire possesses thee,
I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Livin'
once felt, and took my Leader. Virgil then,
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
When him in that vast wilderness I saw,
Honky Tonkin', Honey Baby
It made a sound, as it had been a drum;
And the love light no longer shines
free from all torment in this world of woe,"
Just like a blind man I wandered along
that never doth she sate her greedy lust,
If you'll be a baby to me
Hence, that my Leader might give heed, I placed
Every morning he'd run
"That here thy presence be not known, crouch down
Rootie Tootie, she's my Wednesday gal.
or other inhibition binding man,
It'll be fought at Armageddon, it shall be a sad, sad day.
becoming, even as speech was, where we spoke.
Why should I pay, tell me why should I cry
And one began: "Even if the wretched nature
The crooner's Just Waitin' to sing
they 're set apart, and why less wrathfully
Oh! Plea-ease - don't call me darlin'
the city will be opened unto us."
Each year on Mother's day
as soon as this my Lord said words to me,
She leaves Cincinnati headin' down that Dixie line
and render all their channels cool and fresh,
I guess that I - should not complain
once tookst a thousand lions as thy prey,
Oh, they'll never ever take her love from me.
There, to escape all human fellowship,
And then we'll have some fun
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My Leader then went down into the boat,
but his shore 'nough father wanted him in the big house up above.
for short the time were for so long a talk.
And get that chip off of your shoulder
no news, know nothing of your human state.
Skies above are dark and stormy
which poureth forth so broad a stream of speech?"
But nobody thinks about me
that people is in every law of theirs?"
When I know you don't love me
that my glad honors turned to wretched grief.
Your good fathers and good mothers crowd the little fella round
and down through verdant pastures forms a stream.
I prayed in my heart I would never be found
"O thou that showest by a sign so beastly
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
I then replied to him, "you had not yet
That you're ready to meet
so likewise Geryon set us down below,
I'm free and ready, so we can go steady.
one of thy troop, at whose side we may be,
Violets Just Waitin' for dew
"to where thou sayest usury offends
But last night I heard you crying in your sleep
As were the flames which Alexander saw
That woman of mine she wouldn't let me in
and then the trench was clearly shown to me;
I'll tell them we grew tired of each other
which bears, because of me, the name of Hunger,
There'll be no more sorrow
of that wild beast with gaily mottled skin,
And I'm never no more to mention his name
A midway place there is, where Trento's shepherd,
Praise the Lord I saw the light.
"Behold the wild beast with the pointed tail,
Six more miles, to the graveyard,
Amen could not have been as quickly said,
As i wander thru life alone.
so thick a veil in winter for its course,
And now I'm So Tired Of It All.
who died for lovely Dejanira's sake,
We don't get nearer or further
then, for the wind, I shrank behind my Leader,
There's nothin' as sweet as my baby
with which thine Ethics treats extensively
One-sy, two-sy, zig-sy and
that I can not keep still; be not annoyed,
For my neighbor's one child had been pulled from the path
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gnawed in it by the water's spiral course,
'Cause me and that sweet woman's got a license to fight
this flame would stay without another quiver;
Hows about keepin' steady company?
without my asking, my good Teacher said:
How He brought salvation when He made me whole
encircled and sustained me with his arms;
'neath the palms tonight he's sleepin'
While downward I was leaning still intent,
Where the soul of man never dies
Again, when Fortune so low down had brought
That's the place i long to be,
we went, as ever to the left; and then
To walk through that front door
will drive the other out with much offence.
Can you smile and say
But who art thou, that musest on the crag,
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you.
thou canst already see what is expected,
No one will ever know my heart is breaking
like one whom inward anger overcomes.
Today as she walked arm in arm
and nearer drew and nearer to the brink,
But I'm satisfied with you.
vermilion was on every side, and said:
Don't they know on the judgement day
have blest me, I myself may not regret it.
Take this message to my mother
I found one such of you, that, for his deeds,
My Love for You Has turned to hate
of whom I knew both Hector and Aeneas,
Are the pictures from life's other side
thou 'lt feel a little while from now what Prato,
Too many boyfriends and sociable sals may drive your sweetheart away
but said no more; because there struck mine eyes
And I buried my heart with her
We took the pathway up along the crag,
It's the California Zephyr, the Union Pacific Queen
weeping aloud, to that accursí¨d shore
Oh, the woman on our party line's the nosiest thing
While one was saying this, the other spirit
Today's the day you start to pay
"The banners of the King of Hell advance
But you think that you're above me
Let us not talk of them; but look, and pass!"
Where sorrow creeps
I entered on the wild and arduous course.
Nothing seems to turn out right
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It grows into a sapling and wild tree;
NO ONE KNOWS THE TORTURE I WENT THROUGH,
e'er to the left descending toward the bottom,
The nights are cool and I'm a fool.
owned me when I was in the peaceful life.
You're drifting to far from the shore
now from the flames, now from the heated soil.
He was doing very finely and he appreciates your love,
which hinders Pisans from beholding Lucca,
tell her that I've met my saviour
and in her painful anguish had perceived
You've got stars in your eyes but they can't hide the lies
upon the left slope of the Apennines,
But last night I heard you crying in your sleep
which, when collected, perforate that cave.
SHE SAID I WOULDN'T MARRY YOU, IF ALL THE REST WERE DEAD.
O'er those dead bones of hers they built a town;
AN YA SWAT AT IT AS IT WIZZES BY
this wild and rough and stubborn woodland was,
On his lips, there was a prayer
and holds the town, from seeing which, one now
The blues come around when the sun goes down
Thereat my Teacher said: "Let not thy thoughts
Skies above are dark and stormy
for shelter we withdrew behind the lid
Then will you be ready to go home
They kept blaspheming God, and their own parents,
I run around in circles
As frogs before the hostile water-snake
And then you left me 'lone and blue
But could I see the woeful soul of Guido,
And now I'm Moanin'
and hurled it to some distance from the edge
Now the last scene is that by the river
And then I said: "˜O brothers, ye who now
Nobody wants to do nothin'
lives, as it sits twixt plain and mount,
We've known so much of happiness we've had our cup of joy
the spirits so, that they would fain be deaf.
That it was gossip, not flowers, she had on her mind
she turns her sphere, and blest enjoys herself.
I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You ...
so that the rain seems not to ripen him?"
From out of the sky, He's coming to meet me
words caused by pain, accents of anger, voices
Oh so humble you should be when they come passing by
Hence, that my Leader might give heed, I placed
There lies a story on a rose.
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was nothing to the clawing, for at times
It's the California Zephyr, the Union Pacific Queen
of those the masters of the loftiest song,
My life with you baby has been one hard knock
and given it that vibration which the tongue,
So remember they're your brothers
that to the following trench we can descend,
For my neighbor's one child had been pulled from the path
I then began, "say something, if thou canst."
No one will miss me, after all
for 't is not right to have what one casts off.
He was tortured and slain
and still more will there be, until the Hound
Let's pretend that time has stopped and I didn't go away
Over the shades the heavy rain beats down
You better heed this warning,
Return a little further back," said I,
When I said I do, she must have read my thinkin',
be all revolved. Into a well like this
The seeds of distrust, it will sow
Ií copo Rusticucci was; and surely
Won't you sometimes think of me
because Justice Divine so spurs them on,
When you'll need someone who will care
"Our going down from here must be delayed,
So run along, I know that you don't want me
But little did it profit him; for wings
'Cause My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
First having well surveyed the ruined arch,
I feel like a honey bee, when she's buzzing round with me
has been; Polenta's eagle so broods there,
The blues come around when the sun goes down
Bestir thee, then, and with thy finished speech,
I sat in my seat just thinkin' it o'er
save that baked clay his right foot is, and straighter
As I sit here alone in my cabin
"˜I 'm not the one, I 'm not the one thou thinkest!'"
Why, oh why - should you desert me
when of such wickedness the nest was made!"
(Mind your own business)
I was a poet, and of that just man,
And as I wonder where you are
holds her therein the more discreet and just;
There's a tear in my beer
"I beg you to with all my power;" said I,
What's the use to bother your head
of whom I knew both Hector and Aeneas,
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
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return to see the lovely stars again, "
Why don't you act a little older
Thus gathered I beheld the fair assembly
Oh mother I'm leavin' you here alone
"Wouldst thou that I should touch him on his rump?"
Raised in the likeness of my Savior
the causes were, and of the Papal Robe.
And drag you right down in disgrace
such is the nature of each trench's banks,
And if it all were true
I 'll speak of what I else discovered there.
There's no room in my heart for the blues
But turn thine eyes down yonder now; for lo,
And there in the moonlight I knew
must needs repentant be without avail
She took me in her arms
but on amí²mum only and incense-tears;
And now we sit together - on the running board.
of snakes, and of so weird a kind, that still
I love you baby, but you gotta understand
nor, thus bent over, did he linger there,
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
"˜O Lady of virtue, thou through whom alone
Nor she didn't say goodbye,
for Branca d' Oria is not dead as yet,
Where the soul........never dies
were 't not for that High Priest, (whom ill befall!)
Where the soul........never dies.
from what they purposed freed himself thereby.
Rootie Tootie, (Rootie Tootie)
how this can be, He knows who so ordains.
The jug runs dry and still I cry
since scarcely could we two, though he was light,
Jesus died for me long ago
't was love that moved me, love that makes me speak.
oh! lordy! guess I'm never gonna lose,
To manifest aright what here was new,
Something Got A Hold Of Me (Praise God)
And just such sticky pitch as that which boils
But I got rockin' chair money, honey
when looking for an advantageous grip,
Rootie Tootie, (Rootie Tootie)
I leave the gall, and for the sweet fruit go,
Well shut my mouth, i'm a'headin' south,
No cask, indeed, by loss of middle-board
Every fuss with a woman has got the same ole end
of Hercules, who may perhaps have dealt him
Oh I hear the train a-comin',
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fitted to claw him well, they both fell down
You are on my lonely mind.
Then, after he had placed his hand in mine
Moon in all your splendor knows only my heart
for my mind now is wholly bent on that."
I made a mistake, dear, by tellin' you lies
whence all cried: "˜Whither art thou rushing now,
When things start runnin' smooth and free
I therefore said: "Now, Teacher, grant to me
We'll go Honky Tonkin' 'round this town.
the first of circles girding the abyss.
How she cried when I left her
and though a long way thou hast gone already,
If you want a good gal to stay around
who now were cooked inside their crusted hides;
For He spoke of this great battle that is coming by and by.
was savagely blaspheming, said: "What sort
If it hadn't been for pettin' parties cigarettes and gin
however brave a heart, come swimming up,
A tongue can accuse and carry bad news
And I, who was intensely gazing there,
He died there on the cross
which there was being lost; the skin of one,
Then I began to wonder, if I had made a blunder,
thou dive, but o'er the pitch shall beat my wings;
He died there on the cross
and who was Sí ssol Mascheroni called;
Someone has fell by the way
both of the world, and of the vice and worth
Yeah the honky tonk blues
And now the woeful sounds of actual pain
(like everybody else)
or doth thy mind intently gaze elsewhere?
May you never be alone like me.
and I perceived behind us a black devil
'Neath a cold gray tomb of stone
nor was there any fruit, but poison-thorns.
I've just told Mama goodbye
"When in the sweet ray's presence thou shalt be
And the soul of man never dies
come here, crowned with the sign of victory.
(Oh you) know that I love you no other will do
for thee, that known it is by all the world!"
There's a singin' waterfall
thy bidding pleases me so much, that late
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
their reason to their sensual appetite.
Boy you can't win no matter if you're right
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On hearing him, more were there than a hundred
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
lest it should run when virtue guides it not;
That when I get a kiss I think that something's wrong
"All fearfulness must here be left behind;
To lay all his money down.
that from the fire it saves the stream and banks.
That when I get a kiss I think that something's wrong
one hammers at the stern, and at the prow another;
'mid the storm, a soldier lay
See how he makes a bosom of his shoulders;
When the evenin' sun is sinking
before they come to giving blows and wounds;
Sayin' mama please come home
and from the excessive matter coming there
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart?
that guidest me, if strong my virtue be,
And a freight train whistle taught me how to cry.
To me then my good Teacher: "Dost not ask
We live in two different worlds, dear
by reason of our speech and of our mind,
Oh dear brother are you living
with Farfarello and crazy Rubicante.
And then I went to meet her
The woeful wood is as a garland round it,
My sister married a brakeman and it ain't no joke,
upon the other side, and King Latinus,
When I got a woman - in the boss man's yard.
for which thou didst not fear to seize by fraud,
It makes me laugh and it makes me cry
over the ashes left by Attila,
You knew I worshipped you, right from the start
lost both his ears, with face still lowered, said:
I can't buy no beer.
So wholly wast thou then intent on him
You're nice to me when there's no one else around
so that the rain seems not to ripen him?"
Say Dan can't you see that big green tree,
I saw a shape, which would have chilled with wonder
About my daddy
no news, know nothing of your human state.
But when I get to heaven
stands still at all, lies prone a hundred years,
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you.
And ah, how hard it is to say just what
And my heart is so sore,
and who through their surprise forgot their pain.
Super-duper (Rootie Tootie)
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The many people and unheard-of wounds
I just can't help lovin' you
one crucified by three stakes on the ground.
"So please buy a paper from me
"here 's one of Santa Zita's Ancients! Put him
FOR NO MATTER HOW MUCH EARTHLY WEALTH YOU GET HOLD,
that without being pushed I would have fallen,
I was just a lad, nearly 22
If thou art slow now, Reader, to believe
I haven't had the chance that other kids had
none waited for the second, or the third.
I've got the freight train blues, lordy, lordy, lordy,
so doing I beheld the Minotaur;
WELL MY FRIEND IT WON'T SAVE, YOUR POOR WICKED SOUL.
while, calling him, his father cried: "Thou hold'st
there's water... cool, clear water.
My Leader kept his head bowed down awhile;
I've sent your saddle home.
and if in answering I was mute just now,
Where there will be no parting hand
so pleasing outwardly was its complexion;
Just like a blind man I wandered along
Out of the mouth of each a sinner's feet
You are on my lonely mind
the treachery. But stretch thy hand here now,
I've got new fish to fry
On listening to them I was all intent,
Lord you better keep it on your mind
Penelope, could overcome within me
You better heed this warning,
I think, as on his crupper that one had,
I can't escape from you.
seated amid a philosophic group.
I Told A Lie To My Heart.
the state of those whom such a fortress holds,
Don't come back now It is too late
But who art thou, that musest on the crag,
When you're tired of breaking other hearts
a mighty tumult made, which sweeps around
There's no room in my heart for the blues
And one, who heard my Tuscan speech, cried out
And so my heart is paying now for things I didn't do
"and ask what fault thrust him down here; for I
If you do her wrong she'll leave this tonw
afraid to tell of without further proof;
What ev'rybod - y knew but me
The place, where to descend the bank we came,
While my precious darling's sleeping
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And I, who gazed intently, saw a flag,
And I took a chance, and we happened to dance
when closed shall be the gateway of the future."
She just couldn't stand my disgrace
he heard the things which of his victory
And I won't be home no more.
By palsy some, perhaps, may thus have been
If the night is dark, you will soon see the day
I gathered up the scattered twigs and leaves,
I was there with my Saviour free from grief and strife
But so that thou mayst know who backs thee thus
Lord you better keep it on your mind
up to the river I abstained from speech.
I just can't see no reason why you bother with me,
Even as in autumn leaves detach themselves,
On the past let's close the door
am ready for whatever Fortune wills.
I'm leaving now
when in the world I wrote the lofty verses,
And that's all she wrote, Dear John,
which, 'gainst me coming, pushed me, step by step,
Some don't seem to care
its back and breast, as well as both its sides,
Baby, we fit like a glove
sees down along the valley where, perchance,
If your ever in the south lands and want to see the scenes
Therefore get up! O'ercome thy troubled breath
Ready to live in Paradise
my Teacher and, behind his shoulders, I.
So tell me gentlemen is it right to send her to a cell
then, toward each other turning, thus they spoke:
Her children safe from harm throughout the years tand then she went to sleep
so like a stone had I become within;
A House Without Love is not a home.
and that while in his body he was there.
On her little face was a look of despair,
I dared not from the path descend, to go
I is one and X is ten
but I can not suppress it here; hence, Reader,
Until the last one had returned she'd always keep a light
where it behooveth tyranny to groan.
With a drunken engineer
and stood dumbfounded, like a man who fears.
While my precious darling's sleeping
the ancient prow goes on its way, and cuts
When the Pale Horse and his rider goes by?
When we had gone so far ahead, that now
When the Sun was sinkin' low
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across the banks and trenches to the well,
Rootie Tootie, (Rootie Tootie)
meanwhile, was growing soft, and hard the other's.
A House Without Love is not a home.
What was the master's power who girded him,
When your dream world falls around you
the falsifiers she recordeth here.
FOR MY FRIEND IT WON'T SAVE YOUR POOR WICKED SOUL.
Thus shallower and shallower became
I love you, so swing wide your gate of love
My flesh had hardly been made bare of me,
I'll meet my loved ones there, in that land so bright and fair
Then people I beheld who from the stream
She's got that kind of lovin'
whose threshold unto no one is denied,
Like echoes from the blue
there lies a lake which is Bení co called.
Oh mother I'm leavin' you here alone
a windmill looks when seen from far away;
I know it filled her heart with pain
Now I would have thee know, ere thou go further,
We'll call them Mary and William
because Justice Divine so spurs them on,
Now I don't want you here anymore
if friendly were the universal King,
Oh, the woman on our party line's the nosiest thing
the bolt will cleave the mist in such a way,
Stick your head out the window and feel that southern breeze
And I said: "Teacher, wait now for me here,
In my dreams you're still my only darlin'
When I had heard those sorely troubled souls,
Rootie Tootie, she's my Thursday gal.
Thus on we went as far as to the light,
You are on my lonely mind.
from tuft to tuft he afterward descended
As I stood by her bedside, those last few moments
wherewith my tongue was never surfeited."
That showed thru the darkest of nights.
Etí¨ocles was with his brother placed?'"
My tires and tubes are doin' fine but the air is showin' through
have now gone by, since he was thus shut up."
And that's all she wrote, Dear John,
were fixed, had passed away, I turned them round
You've grown cold and no longer care for me
I bit in anguish both my hands. And they,
he just thought you need some sunshine and he lent it for a while.
All the first circle holds the violent;
I returned home, but I waited too long
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After the woeful rout, when Charlemagne
And I'll be left here all a- lone.
it seemed as if their nimble legs were wings.
I can't buy no beer.
The latter streaked their faces with their blood,
Put on my Sunday suit, but I ain't goin' nowhere
The sinner then, who understood, feigned not,
A lad stood alone in tears
not heeding in himself his lofty office
Because it died When we were apart
"O thou that in the valley fortune-blest,
darlin I could never be ashamed of you.
and other straights, as soon as I was up,
I'm alone and oh, so blue tonight
even such a structure seemed I now to see;
Who failed to use common sense
from which its end can never be cut off,
Lead you to that promise land
first here, then there, they helped them with their hands,
My pants with dirt were sprinkled,
the causes were, and of the Papal Robe.
Get on your knees and pray.
His eyes were downcast, and his eyebrows shorn
(Mind your own business)
had named the place, nor fondness for my son,
Now it's a shame the way she keeps a good man broke.
seeing the cause which raineth down the blast,
A song I will sing
The latter, swimming, slowly wends his way,
I'm a number not a name
turning, meanwhile, his teeth against himself.
Can you smile and say
looked at each other, as one looks at truth.
Ev'rybody's lonesome for somebody else
away from him his just created shoulders,
You'll always know him by the lonesome fiddle
Already had I fixed mine eyes on his;
But we got married on the Tennessee Border.
the other two were to the latter joined
My life with you baby has been one hard knock
when "Now be careful there!" my Teacher said,
On an island far away
fell dead, and when the ancient race of people,
To hide its face and cry
leaving behind them horrible contempt!"
His servants will bring, a ring for my finger
which crosses here, I know not what it said;
Ev'ry time you get mad
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off easy, and even in other offices
Let's honky tonk all night
and cannot walk, but plunges here and there;
At night when I am sad and lonely
Ivy was never rooted to a tree
And turn in fire alarms
There never was an earthquake strong enough
His heart went to heaven,at the first fall of snow
With her at my departure I shall leave thee,
Darling, I could never be ashamed of you.
But none the less his language gave me fear,
I saw a teardrop on a rose.
to do according to the Marquis' will,
Faded love and winter roses live and die in memory
and weary. Cloaks they had equipped with cowls
I watched my dream world crumble like clay
three Frisians would have made a useless boast;
With your dying breath
nor hast thou only now thereto disposed me."
Sinner hear me when I say
start to attack, or be reviewed, and even,
Each thing you've touched along the way will be a hallowed spot
that wicked beast reclining over there."
That showed thru the darkest of nights.
Thereat she ceased to speak, and I began:
She may have forsaken some other like me
my wise Guide leads me by a different path
This story happened
for afterward we heeded them alone.
Straight is the gate and narrow the way
to tell us who thou art, that dost so safely
I know that I would never be this blue
and drew me to himself from where I was.
Who had lost all of his money at play
out of the ice from midway up his breast;
My yesterdays haunt me, my weary heart cries
as far as where one goes no further down;
Now I don't wanna show you the door
and curb my genius more than I am wont,
I rocked from here and there
But since I should have burned and baked myself,
Love like ours should never die so darling let's turn back the years
Let Libya and her sand no longer boast;
And I'm lost on the river
There, to escape all human fellowship,
OF HOW OUR SAVIOR DIED, AS THEY NAILED HIS HANDS,
the heart, which still is honored on the Thames."
Thibodaux Fontaineaux the place is buzzin'
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but one of our black Cherubs said to him:
I'll never get out of this world alive
that either party shall be hungry for thee;
You only build me up to let me down
they are of every other destiny.
But she just wouldn't stay
when I of thee the sudden question asked.
Rootie Tootie, she's my Thursday gal.
replied: "To this condition I was come
The simplicity and shrewdness in his Ethiopian face, showed the wisdom and ignorance of a crushed, undying race.
that I could not have seen just where it was,
No use to sit at home and fine
but that shame made its threats to me, which renders
The corn meals gone and the meat's run out
Vení¨dico Caccianimico art;
There's nothin' as sweet as my baby
Then "Oh!" said I, "art thou already dead?"
She's got "purty" eyes of blue
and said: "My father, why dost thou not help me?"
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you.
because, ere one return in front of him,
You just look through your cookbook
and weary. Cloaks they had equipped with cowls
Now, You're Gonna Change or I'm a-gonna leave.
they did not with due worship honor God;
With shoulders stooped and heads bowed low and eyes that stare in defeat
and Mantuans with respect to fatherland.
Like a piece of driftwood on the sea
through the dark air are ever pouring down;
And late in the evening
which overcame a hemisphere of gloom.
All I need is a bride who want's a big-hearted groom
and had I not so prematurely died,
Why don't you mind your own business
More fearful of the abyss I then became,
When the ev'nin' train goes by
"who took to bloodshed and to plundering.
She called my name o'er and o'er
they struck against each other; then, right there
Such love as Jesus did impart
The other two looked on, and each exclaimed:
If you make a snake mad he's sure gonna bite
that may be done to me, who know these things,
Maybe you've been cheated in the past,
And then, perhaps because of failing breath,
Only hold her hand and say goodbye
And I, afraid lest any longer stay
When we stand there in God's Kingdom and The Book Of Life Is Read.
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We entered it without the least contention;
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
thine upper portion, planted like a stake,"
When the sun was low
to burn to ashes, and no longer last,
Down the aisle with someone else you're walking
for Branca d' Oria is not dead as yet,
I've fetched your saddle home.
"O thou that showest by a sign so beastly
YOU KILLED ALL THE LOVE I EVER HAD.
when it perceived us pass in front of it.
May you never be alone like me.
see to it that thou cleanse thee from their ways!
I saw a young man kneelin' there
"was empress over lands of many tongues.
I can speak my name aloud
as one would whom his grief had made insane.
Today's the day you start to pay
but with their heads and chests, and with their feet,
Drifting too far from the shore (from the shore)
when people in the great round trench I saw
You should have known you'd be alone
and who himself wrought vengeance for himself;
Rootie Tootie, she's my Friday gal.
the words of truth that she addressed to thee!
But you know you caused it all by telling lies
and with his oar beats whoso takes his ease.
We've known so much of happiness we've had our cup of joy
and me with speed, I dread the Evilclaws;
I like candy, I like cake, I like jam but goodness sake
The people in it were more numerous once,
Your cheatin' heart
without addressing me; he thus has caused me
I'll have a new home of glory eternal
the second Frederick and the Cardinal
When you and your baby have a fallin' out
trembling all over, kissed me on my mouth.
When God comes and gathers his jewels
"Why dost thou mirror thee so much on us?
You've known so long that you were wrong
a few, who by these sins polluted were."
My helper, he quit - for the lack of pay
to which I was, perhaps, too great a bane."
There sat my Saviour on his golden throne
wholly of stone, and of an iron hue,
For years I've lived without a meaning
but forced I am by thy transparent speech,
She never close her eyes to sleep till we were all in bed
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both loud and faint, and smiting hands withal,
This prisoner here before you is a social enemy
adjudged thine accusation of thyself?"
And deny my God and doon my soul
I can't refuse what thou dost ask of me.
My eyes beheld a tragic story
whate'er defensive stir be made within.
You told me you loved me, you told me a lie
Who ever could, ev'n with unfettered words,
Lord you better keep it on your mind
encircled and sustained me with his arms;
And I know, people across the United States
and he who made our ladder with his hair,
Til my body's just a shell
the coin!" said Sinon, "I 'm for one sin here,
Faded love and winter roses yearning hearts that used to be
A longer stairway must be climbed; 't is not
When the lights all grow dim
even if the souls of serpents we had been."
The simplicity and shrewdness in his Ethiopian face, showed the wisdom and ignorance of a crushed, undying race.
and that while in his body he was there.
I can't keep the tears from my eyes
Verrucchio's former Mastif and the new,
There sat my Saviour on his golden throne
and I compare more closely with a Giant,
Thibodaux Fontaineaux the place is buzzin'
"Our path must turn aside a little now,"
I'll have a new body
nor yet can one at once repent and will,
There's a road that's straight and narrow
where that vale ended which had pierced my heart
You better start to treat me nice
since in ill-doing thou excell'st thy seed?
Or stood and watched with helpless hands while the heart inside you dies
And as the usurer takes another course,
It looks to me like I been cheated out of my rib
see how he writhes, and utters not a word!
For he was the one ray of sunshine
"If they can speak within those sparks," said I,
There'll be no more sorrow
the thing's incredibility has made me
I could say it's over now
till through a rounded opening I beheld
I'd rather be in a deep, dark grave
No path was this for one who wore a cloak,
But still you blame me for all
that noble Sage, then, who knew everything,
Not a penny in my pocket
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would fain excuse myself, and all the while
Just a kid actin' smart
O rabble, that, ill-born beyond all people,
Cause I tell you right now the hide's gettin' sca'ce
Surely he asked for naught but "˜Follow me.'
I've been a fool about you, for way too long
"The anguish of the people here below,"
Lord, I've been waitin' too long
With her at my departure I shall leave thee,
She left LA this mornin' burnin' up the right of way
and if in answering I was mute just now,
I know you're alone with your pride dear
when lo, another, which behind it came,
Please heed His call and in sin don't fall
who yonder grapples sinners with his hook!"
WHEN FLOWERS ARE BLOOMIN BENEATH THE MOON
beside his head, protruded from the pit.
And on party nights when we come home she often sat and read
If to know who I am concern thee so,
And my heart's so sad, for the words I read there
my garment's hem, exclaimed: "How wonderful!"
When the sky shall open and this earth melt away
lengthen as much, as those were growing short.
It seems my life is through
was causing him to keep his lips apart,
Just remember there's a man to blame and that man might be your son
I 'd have thee swallow now my thought of her.
When you're tired of breaking other hearts
who is that great one who seems not to mind
So heavy is my load
with eyes askance, and uttered not a word;
And wishes he was still an old pine tree.
that one is high, and low the following one;
Go on and break you Crazy Heart.
or aught else lying hidden in the sea,
Will come from the sky
that I had never heard him use the like:
I'll even make believe I never loved you
come toward us through the water thereupon,
My honey coated sweetie pie
clutched tightly by the sinews of his feet.
She said, "son, please don't leave me
the Centaur said, "I wish thee to believe
Have you finished your building in Glory
when from Jehoshaphat they here return
There's be no pain or sorrow, no tears will e'er be shed
"who hath his head within, and plies his legs
Left my gal and left my home
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As little flowers by the chill of night
I got the ho-on-ky tonk blues.
his haughty undertaking he attempted
Early next mornin' as the crowd passed by
Because I severed those who thus were joined,
Filled with selfishness and greed
And he to me then: "After struggling long
The cow broke in the field and eat up the beans
both how and why I 'd have thee hear from me.
Well, you're just in time to be too late
so eager to advance the cubs, that wealth
And each precious vow you tried to keep
to weep? Awake they were, and now the hour
But last night I heard you crying in your sleep
and came into our hemisphere; perhaps
And waited for your call
and Moses the law-giver and obedient;
There's nothin' as sweet as my baby
should give the Novarese a victory,
You should see the people stare
above extends, and draweth in below.
So I won't be home no more
who formerly possessed Hautefort, that thou,
It's the California Zephyr, the Union Pacific Queen
His weighty words then drove me to the point,
My life with you baby has been one hard knock
was fiercely kicking out with both his feet.
Where the soul........never dies
Among my menials he must needs descend,
And I just don't like this way of livin'.
Each turned his eyes the other way; and he
That dreams will soon come true
Without another word he fled away;
It's that Pan American on her way to New Or-leans.
soiled by the self same sin when in the world.
But I guess you're the two-timin' kind
who saw my Leader coming back, the sooner
Each thing you've touched along the way will be a hallowed spot
as is the round wall which encircles it.
Now, You're Gonna Change or I'm a-gonna leave.
behind me, is still visible above.
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
advancing further o'er the woeful edge,
That waits beside the track
Into the fourth ditch we descended thus,
A trusting heart had just been broken
and said: "Go on, for I am strong and bold!"
What can I do, love, with my heart
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but rising thence was quite impossible,
Oh don't you know that Jesus died to wash your sins away
I 'd be, hadst thou already been obeyed;
Like a hog a rootin' up under a fence
how many tender thoughts and what desire
There's nothin' as sweet as my baby
a free state half, and half a tyranny.
I could smile and say that I don't care
the title which the voice of one proclaimed,
I rocked away out on the ocean
My Teacher said: "Our answer will we give
'Cause there ain't a hound dog in this state that can hold a light to me
that more than one tongue in the world is spoken.
Baby, rock, rock on down the line
but rising thence was quite impossible,
dollar weighs ten, dollar weighs ten
He at the serpent looked, and it at him;
It seemed like the whole world was lost
received in waging war with Robert Guiscard,
Out on this river
for vulgar is the wish to hear such things."
You'll stand in God's Kingdom, When The Book Of Life Is Read.
and bound he is, and shaped like this one, save
When everything goes wrong
Even now thy thoughts were coming among mine
It rides on rails of fear
Under each face two mighty wings stretched out,
AND WHEN I ASKED HER TO LET ME IN, HERE'S ALL SHE SAID TO ME.
When they were somewhat pacified again,
It was nothing of course
Since love for my own native place constrained me,
We'll order up two bowls of chili settin' the woods on fire
sees down along the valley where, perchance,
cause I'm crying for you dear
"Spread we the nets," he cried, "that I may take,
What can I do - you win again.
Thus o'er the dusky waves they wend their way;
Then your life will be eternal when you dwell with Him atlast.
that he would tell me who was with him there.
Let's pretend that time has stopped and I didn't go away
shades borne along upon the aforesaid storm;
Just hang your little head and cry,
through earthquake or through failure of support;
Don't come back now It is too late
had been the light beneath the moon, since first
Lord you better keep it on your mind
gave me this new commission; he is not
I can't escape from you.
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because, ere one return in front of him,
Then one day a man put his hand on my arm
One is the woman who charged Joseph falsely;
But we were all too young back then to understand the reason why
who rolled his eyes as if he meant to strike,
I made a mistake, dear, by tellin' you lies
whereat three spirits came and stood below us,
Just like she used to do
one stood before me filled with mud, and said:
Won't you sometimes think of me
when people in the great round trench I saw
Wedding bells are ringing in the chapel
while in the present ye do otherwise."
Well I heard the dishes crashin',
and the others who were set on doing good,
I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You ...
O cloak that wearies through eternity!
I walked up the steps and I peeked in the door
Tell it from there, or else I draw my bow."
No matter where you wander, darlin'
They all look up to him, all honor him;
We'll sit close to one another up one street and down the other
All covert practices and hidden ways
We'll sit close to one another up one street and down the other
wherein the boiled were crying out aloud.
And I buried my heart with her
by sign of either land or sky, set out
(Mind your own business)
Before your grappling hooks take hold of me,
Well Lord I got 'em,
began to quiver with a murmuring sound,
There'll be no more strife
along with them, intent on their sad plaint;
I don't care who thinks we're silly you'll be daffy and I'll be dilly
I was created by the Might divine,
God knows it died the day you left
upon the other side, and King Latinus,
I've had it proven to me,
that Attila who was a scourge on earth,
AN YOU TELL YA SELF TONIGHTS THE NIGHT
kept swelling up, and settling back compressed.
When your dream world falls around you
if it please that one; for with him I go."
So, Why Don't You Love Me like you used to do.
that through my memory it is circling still;
Death may be lingering near.
A shade then at the tomb's uncovered mouth
Sinner hear me when I say
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But since I should have burned and baked myself,
And he let you keep and love it til your hearts were bigger grown
on burning paper which is not yet black,
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
"Now stay thy steps, and on thee let the sight
These blues have got me cryin'
thought it advisable for us to leave.
Your cheatin' heart
and if thou weepest not, at what art wont
And scat right back to my pappy's farm
this wild and rough and stubborn woodland was,
Daniel in the lion's den,
as doth a bird to its recalling lure.
I can see the light of day
Then said my Leader: "He 'll not wake again
These blues have got me cryin'
there 'd be no more returning up above."
Now I'm sad, my heart is cryin',
I understood that to this kind of pain
Cause you can't mend my broken heart
But that thou scrape more gladly from my face
Your daddy's mad; He's done got pee-eeved
reverberated through the starless air;
And my Ma-in-law just moved in to stay
that art concealed down yonder, thy Romagna
To give you a heart true and real
which caused a trembling in the eternal air;
Moon in all your splendor knows only my heart
This marsh, from which the mighty stench exhales,
She was her daddy's only daughter
But who art thou, that musest on the crag,
With a welcome on the door
Then, having talked among themselves awhile,
There is no end, I can't pretend
but raised himself, as on a ship a mast.
You'll cry and cry
was quiet and erect, and now away from us
The nights are cool and I'm a fool.
in soul he bathes already in Cocytus,
If she drinks while you taught her and if she smokes you showed her how
which from me thus hath torn away my leaves,
And as I watched, I cried in sorrow
but not so, that I should not fear the sight,
Sinner hear now what I say
when days are cold, in full and wide-spread flocks;
Baby, it's time for me to rearrange
whence, had there been more light, the next ravine
You should see the people stare
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this mass of rock had not yet fallen down.
Grab your dancin' shoes
he heeded with so glad a look throughout
A song of old San Antone
upon his hosts, unbroken to the ground;
Ev'rybody's lonesome for somebody else
When by that gathering I had thus been eyed,
In this wicked ole world today
now one and now another, till their branch
You are on my lonely mind.
I went along in thought; and he: "Perchance
Cry, oh, lord.
is bathed by waters which therein find rest.
His heart went to heaven,at the first fall of snow
inside the entrance he examines sins,
That always when we got back home we'd find her waitin' there
"O Gií como" it said, "da Sant'Andrea,
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and filé gumbo
even as a mother, by the noise aroused,
You said that you no longer loved me
and if thou weepest not, at what art wont
Such a beautiful dream
where for a thousand there should refuge be;
When I get to Glory, I'm gonna sing, sing, sing
one stood before me filled with mud, and said:
Ev'rybody's dreamin' about somebody else
before my age had rounded out its noon.
And there's trouble in your soul
nor let your foul and loathsome punishment
Hows about keepin' steady company?
grows shallow more and more on this side here,"
Well shut my mouth, i'm a'headin' south, on the dixie cannon-ball
the vestry known for its fair ornaments;
That's home sweet home to me,
who from behind were fiercely whipping them.
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
girdles the woeful city round about,
And then maybe these tears
which fortify that region comfortless;
And on party nights when we come home she often sat and read
out of the seed of ants restored themselves;
Praise the Lord I saw the light.
"O foolish creatures," said he then to me.
Hi, neighbors, this is our new album
and all the rest that sea bathes round about.
And the soul.........never dies.
lies crushed beneath the blow which envy gave it!"
And clouds overshadow the sky
Canto LI
Thereat his pride received so great a fall,
But that's all done, I've changed my mind
not of the rest, for they should not be feared.
Well I left my home down on the rural route
so, one by one, the evil seed of Adam
I have no place on this earth to call home
those townsmen who rebuilt her afterward
So I can get me somethin' to eat
each turned, and rolling back his weight, cried out:
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
Her eyes were shining brighter than a star,
Sneak it on over (move it on over)
we now are sullen in the swamp's black mire."
She's sweeter than wine and brother she's mine
and then proceed according to his pace."
Boy you can't win no matter if you're right
what time the Giants caused the Gods to fear;
And now I ain't gonna love you anymore.
from Monte Veso takes a separate course
My darkest night will turn to day
in the sweet air that 's gladdened by the sun,
So many times you've proved that in the past
"and if you 'd have me sit with you, I will,
The scene was a crowded courtroom and the judge a stern old man
which closes one side of the following trench.
Early next mornin' as the crowd passed by
and all the others whom thou seest here
But I know a man that didn't try to get along,
than this disease, which strips my face of flesh.
When you're wearing striped britches,
Speaking of other things my Comedy
Now I know I'll never find another sweetheart
after some counsel taken with himself,
And then she failed to shine my shoes,
"wrong were we not to punish Theseus' raid."
Of old age and a blushing young bride
back toward the ancient Poet turned my steps.
It's the California Zephyr, the Union Pacific Queen
the first, who had thereto been most opposed.
'Cause My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
A painted people found we there below,
I can't keep the tears from my eyes
Alas, what wounds I saw upon their limbs,
I promise you baby that I'll be good
before replying, down upon his back
What in the confounded cat hair you want me to do
bristling with fear, when, gazing back intent,
My shirts they came up wrinkled,
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While downward I was leaning still intent,
Deep within my heart lies a melody
Then more than ever yet did I fear death,
The snow falls 'round my window
"Have pity on me," I cried out to him,
She leaves Cincinnati headin' down that Dixie line
it rushes headlong down; and so, perhaps,
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and filé gumbo
though not that any be reclothed therewith;
But I knew her love would never set me free
Both old and slow were I and my companions,
BUT THEIRS A FLY THAT'S A LIVEN RIGHT
as toward the bellies of the other two
Because it died When we were apart
collect them at the foot of my sad bush!
Your daddy's mad; He's done got pee-eeved
and which hath more than once increased your pain?
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.
and thus was causing pain to three of them.
If you're thinkin' of me like i'm thinkin' of you
"O me, Agnello, what a change is thine!
"The bad girl who lived down the street."
by demon force, which pulls him to the ground,
Heart filled with strife
they form, and through this narrow duct descend
We were so happy, darlin' we two
Thereat were quieted the woolly cheeks
But now you are gone it's over and so
And as their wings bear starlings on their way,
Oh you're the one that was unfair,
the left one such to look at, as are those
But they'll never never take her love from me.
as doth the hectic, who, because of thirst,
Stop doin' all the things that you oughten too
"Dost thou, perhaps, think Athens' duke is here,
All my heart has lost a feeling
and he had of his rump a trumpet made.
Six more miles and leave my darlin',
bring us and our requests into contempt,
'Cause I'm satisfied with you.
he firmly grasped the shaggy flanks, and then
Well I'm in love I'm in love with a beautiful gal
Meantime my Leader on his way was going,
We lived in a place
will cause thy triumph on the lofty seat.'
To the tune of the ALABAMA WALTZ.
and toward us they were knitting close their brows,
You go get yourself a man that wants to fight
Canto LIII
and be not thou afraid, for any harm
It's headin' for destruction now
Israel, with both his father and his sons,
I'll just set back and watch you,
he had attained the other butting place.
And clouds overshadow the sky
And thereupon, as if hot wax they were,
And claim up your soul
bristling with fear, when, gazing back intent,
She had to know that we were safe before she went to rest
now with their paws, and with their muzzles now,
The congregation's waitin' for the preacher
but bore me to the summit of the arch,
No matter how I struggle and strive
Then quieted a little was the fear,
That meant more to me than thou
art come, scorn not to tell us who thou art."
With out the taste of water... cool, water.
did I remove my eyes. For as their prongs
the boys all whistle when she walks by.
Love to a death in common led us on;
And hung a sign on my front gate
for at a gateway less concealed than this
You wouldn't stay away half as much as you do
he threw it down into the greedy throats.
I told my paw I'm going steppin out and get the
which said: "Pope Anastasius I contain,
haul up on a crack up on a wheelbarrow blackstone
I think that he had risen upon his knees.
Hey Roly Poly eatin' corn and taters hungry every minute of the day
These churchmen were, who have no hairy covering
As though his heart would break
I heard one say to me: "Look where thou walkest!
Your memory is chained to me
and now to middle-tierce the sun returns."
And once she told me when you're grown to women and to men
On my return to consciousness, which closed
Down the aisle with someone else you're walking
thine outward image I would not reflect
Shake it on over (move it on over)
Justice inspired my high exalted Maker;
Will you please make up your mind what you want me to do
Thereon I turned my back but yestermorn;
Jesus died there on the cross
and visible as is a straw in glass;
When the time rolls around for me to lay down and die
this man can give what most is longed for here;
Today I passed you on the street
Canto LIV
Oh, how dismayed that Curio seemed to me,
I tried so hard,my dear,to show that you're my every dream
and, dreaming, wishes that he dreamt, and thus,
A House Without Love is not a home.
for though she breed chelỳdri, jí culi,
And I'll never be bad no more
whereby the sand was set on fire, as tinder
LORD I WENT TO THE DOCTOR, HE TOOK ONE LOOK,
as seeing falsely doth a shying beast.
For you are the one I want, my darlin', can't you see
hatred toward him thou eatest, tell me why,"
When i cross them smokey mountains. i'll be countin' every mile,
and said: "Take hold of that one next, but first
I just can't help lovin' you
is not at present, and she never was,
Now I'm so happy no sorrow in sight
that it would be too much, wert thou alive?"
You'll dig up the money or you'll work the streets
and the other two my canto names above.
I heard that lonesome whistle blow
so doth that blast the evil spirits bear;
I guess that I - should not complain
opened, before the rest, his throat, whose neck
'Neath a cold gray tomb of stone
felt by the throngs, which many were and great,
There sat my Saviour on his golden throne
was not a petty, but a first rate grafter.
God certainly got a hold of me.
to where a crag projected from the bank.
It'll be fought at Armageddon, it shall be a sad, sad day.
before the foolishness of Casalodi
But dear I hope you're happy just the same
her paramour, when he had said "˜Have I
Why Don't You Love Me like you used to do.
the satirist, the one that cometh next;
Won't you sometimes think of me
might be, perchance, disdainful of thy words."
Sinner hear me when I say
I come to take you to the other shore,
With your dying breath
fall thou upon my head a thousand times."
But now you are gone it's over and so
whereby and how did Love concede to you
That you've been seen - a-runnin' 'round
before the Trojans' eyes, the earth was opened!
There sat my Saviour on his golden throne
I sorrowed then, and now again I sorrow,
Mary, she rocked him, her darlin to sleep
Canto LV
and wished to ask thee: "˜Who is in the flame
(Mind your own business)
As champions oiled and nude are wont to do,
The fire fell from Heaven, I fell to the floor
cannot be held, flows out of it perforce,
There ya have it, friends
he thunders, Jupiter is threatening still.
But there'll be no teardrops tonight.
ne'er with all Ethiopia did she show,
As I stood by her bedside, those last few moments
who whined and groaned, and with their muzzles puffed,
AS WE JOURNEY ALONG, ON LIFE'S WICKED ROAD,
they give the warning which bids mariners
Watching the setting sun
unless thou bark? What devil touches thee?"
Just a spark of the love that used to be
but with them there he did not long remain,
I've never seen a night so long
calls him again, that death may be delayed.
But now I know your heart is shackled to a memory
goes all around ill-treating others thus."
Humpty-dumpty, (Rootie Tootie)
Unless thou comest to increase the vengeance
Filled with selfishness and greed
his master waited, or by one who kept
'Neath a cold gray tomb of stone
Ill-giving and ill-keeping took from them
If you make your baby mad and she says goodbye
her harlot eyes from Caesar's dwelling-place,
She's a makin' nauts she's makin' time just watch her swing and sway
My Teacher said: "He, yonder, Cacus is,
All my dreams have died and vanished
and fell as falls a body that is dead.
even though you proved to be untrue
hence, as she lists, let Fortune turn her wheel,
Cause I ain't gonna call you any more.
One day, for pastime merely, we were reading
So why should we try anymore
is kindled under steel, to double pain.
I'm gonna throw my date book over the fence
in the Gardingo's neighborhood appears."
In this world, I'm just a drifter
Thereat my Leader spoke with so much force,
I like candy, I like cake, I like jam but goodness sakes
and there let him remain; for at the foot
NO FRIENDS IT WON'T SAVE, YOUR POOR WICKED SOUL.
An old fame in the world proclaims them blind,
Everyone here tried to warn me
Canto LVI
and that high peak from which the Tiber springs."
Go and leave me alone with the blues
I saw Electra with companions many,
Now I'm sad, my heart is cryin',
But when in the sweet world thou art again,
Turn back before its to late
once tookst a thousand lions as thy prey,
And now the bitter teardrops start
when he arrives, whom I believed thou wast,
KAW-LIGA, was a lonely Indian never went nowhere
divides itself, while in the other case,
Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou
it seemed the one who by the pain was pierced;
Now I'm too busy pitchin' woo
nor let your foul and loathsome punishment
Just how many homes are broken tonight
"what thou hast heard against thyself; pay now
Another man's wife
came on so slowly, that new company
And slander your name all over town
Of Cadmus, and of Arethusa, too,
While you set alone and cry.
that I could in a hundred years advance
His heart was set on the Indian maiden with the coal black hair
is joined thereto, whence special trust is born;
Then read aloud just to myself
cried: "Here the Holy Face availeth not!
One-sy, two-sy, zig-sy and
Five times rekindled, and as often quenched,
Too many tears thru it all
mantled already with that planet's rays
So don't take off your hat and coat
he said to me, "for I shall win the fight,
I've got a blue love in my heart.
of snakes, and of so weird a kind, that still
I just couldn't tell her that I ran away
and wholly over Caurus lies the Wain,
For someday you'll find that I'm not there.
Thereat my Leader spoke with so much force,
To a land of groans and pain
O Aretines; raids, too, have I beheld,
And get that chip off of your shoulder
and backward through his head withdraws his ears,
Tonight my darlin's sleepin'
for, as I thought it over, I gave up
I haven't had the chance that other kids had
And he to me: "See how I think of this."
I'm so lonesome I could cry
Canto LVII
morality, and full of every vice,
I prayed there and God had His way. (For-)
because of which I said: "These torments, Teacher,
Then will you be ready to go home
and if in answering I was mute just now,
You know she didn't ask to be brought to
that on the right twixt white and yellow seemed;
There's someone who's restin' alone
the penalty which sparkles on you thus?"
Won't you sometimes think of me
such that all eyes would be repelled by it.
I got a little gal that wears her hair up high,
As in a circle, round that road we went,
God certainly got a hold of me.
Yet dead men's feet are not thus wont to do."
I give my all and sit and yearn
and such good daring coursed into my heart,
LORD I NEVER KNEW A MAN COULD FEEL SO BAD,
who died for lovely Dejanira's sake,
Last night I dreamed of heaven and I saw my mother there
a deed once falsely put upon another.
I know that she's waiting in vain
beneath, for I 'm for more of them returning
The way I do
vermilion was on every side, and said:
There's no room in my heart for the blues
gave forth a wind, whence flashed vermilion light
I love to see the towns a-passin' by
till over us the ocean's waves had closed."
I got the ho-on-ky tonk blues.
and fit to cover him and me. Renewed
My baby stepped out while I was gone
"but who art thou that didst inquire of us?"
KAW-LIGA - A, just stood there and never let it show
Already into one had both heads turned,
Where you´ll never, never die
of one of his companions, oped his mouth,
Then read aloud just to myself
and turned against him all their grappling hooks;
The children're all with you now the kindly doctor said
Ill-giving and ill-keeping took from them
I'd rather be in a deep, dark grave
Guido Bonatti see; and see Asdente,
In old Alabam'
But I remained to look upon the throng,
All day long
I saw a shape, which would have chilled with wonder
I'll crawl back to her on my knees
Canto LVIII
Then the great provost turned toward Farfarello,
We can find us a brand new recipe?
So may God let thee, Reader, gather fruit
when slowly through the window came a plaintive funeral hymn
let, then, those Ladies give my verse their aid,
No more lookin' - I know I been tookin'
The people in it were more numerous once,
Golden hair and big blue eyes she could win a beauty prize
the third is Ovid, Lucan is the last.
There sat your picture all alone
will be our knowledge from that moment on,
Nothing seems to turn out right
Her eyes were shining brighter than a star,
Then there'll be no teardrops tonight.
Each turned his eyes the other way; and he
You'll spend your days in sorrow
out to their feeding drives his tender sheep.
BUT YOU HAVE TREATED ME SO BAD,
They then broke up their wheel, and in their flight
I was sad and blue, I was down-hearted, too
"Of Navarre's kingdom I a native was.
I'll listen for whistle
and wherefore free and daring art thou not,
For I know my prayers have not been in vain
about the faith which conquers every error;
All my dreams have died and vanished
both of the road and of the sympathy,
Baby, rock, let's rock on down the line
in Heaven, on earth, and in the evil world!
And smile don't regret but live and forget
And he replied: "Thou certainly dost please me
You said you could live without loving
and fearing lest my talking might annoy him,
With tears in my eyes, dear, I begged you to stay
and, as he came, said: "What does this avail him?"
Ev'ry thing I loved, I lost, dear
when I was in it did it laden seem.
But don't trust any woman you meet
His head is formed of finest gold, his arms
I watched my dream world crumble like clay
who in the figure of a cross was stretched
Darlin' if our romance ends let us be the best of friends
whereat, so great the anger mastering them,
and don't go to criticizn' the one what knows the best.
e'er to the left descending toward the bottom,
As though his heart would break
to learn who that wretch is, who thus
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain.
Canto LIX
that every Bianco will thereby be wounded.
Lord I love to hear her when she calls me sweet da-a-addy
Why climbst thou not the Mountain of Delight,
There's nothin' as sweet as my baby
make themselves heard by means of woeful sighs?"
I've been a fool about you, for way too long
"wrong were we not to punish Theseus' raid."
NO NOT NOW, BUT MAYBE NEXT WEEK SOME - HOW.
to torture one man for the people's sake.
My head was swelled up so doggone big I couldn't get it through my front door
affect thee, where the cold locks up Cocytus.
Ev'rybody's lonesome for somebody else
Why climbst thou not the Mountain of Delight,
I often sit and wonder
The tear-stained ground
Are away beyond the skies
even so, since from the body of the flame
Everybody says you let me down
So may God let thee, Reader, gather fruit
My darkest night will turn to day
All of a sudden issued forth these words
I can't escape from you.
that so dost in our short life goad us on,
There he was lying but he felt no pain
bearing within us fumes of surliness;
To spend eternity
the many unheard of toils and pains I saw,
Grab your dancin' shoes
I cannot say; but this one had in front
down behind the trees and the moon is slowly rising
"Leader," said I, "his death by violence,
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart?
this wild and rough and stubborn woodland was,
If you're meant for me like i'm meant for you
and both my parents were of Lombardy,
Oh! Lord I see his burdens are greater than mine.
that more than one tongue in the world is spoken.
Move over cold dog cause a hot dog's moving in
in wrath, he took the pointed thunderbolt,
Ohio and Kentucky Tennessee and Alabam, the delta state of
but not so far, but I could dimly see
And wishes he was still an old pine tree.
"was empress over lands of many tongues.
To give you a heart true and real
for thee, that known it is by all the world!"
On the dixie cannon- ball
I have an arm that 's loose for needs like this."
So run along, I know that you don't want me
Canto LX
whereby they glowed with such intensity,
I heard that lonesome whistle blow
and two in one they were, and one in two;
Well Lord I got 'em,
My Leader said to me: "'Gainst Jove Most High
She leaves the city of the angels headin' for ole Santa Fe
seemed weary to me; then methought I saw
Now I lay awake, dear, with tears in my eyes
As is that downfall on the hither side
She leaves the city of the angels headin' for ole Santa Fe
And I to him: "Among such men as these
Just a picture from life's other side
"Arch-heretics are with their followers here"
I watched my dream world crumble like clay
"Before thou enter any further, know
For I know that you'll never be true
thus Plutus with his clucking voice began;
What pain He suffered there
Men were we once, and now are stocks become;
I knew you couldn't win, I told you from the start
"˜Why, Beatrice,' she said, "˜true Praise of God,
Won't you sometimes think of me
shooting each soul that from the blood emerges
Each night when the pale moon is shining
which bellows as the sea doth in a storm,
And our little home was like a paradise
which slightly slopes. My Leader then, and I,
I walked up the steps and I peeked in the door
before it flows into its lowly bed,
But they left him to die like a tramp on the street.
whom thou describest as so whelmed with woe."
The hummin' of the drivers was my lullaby,
so that, though blistered, it did not prevent
We'll be strong enough to face our last goodbye
The Evangelist was thinking of your shepherds,
She left LA this mornin' burnin' up the right of way
takes from the very place in which I sinned
It makes me laugh and it makes me cry
foreseeing, she decides, and carries on
If sugar seems sweet then you ought to meet
When by that gathering I had thus been eyed,
They are tears of sorrow and tears of delight,
that to the ends of earth their fame was noised.
That I'd be happy if we'd part
in that I answered him in this strain only:
Such a beautiful dream
and writhed all over; then Fra Catalí n,
Ev'rybody's lonesome for somebody else
Canto LXI
as if it were not, longs for that which is;
People steal, they cheat and lie
which hinders Pisans from beholding Lucca,
What a fool I was to go and break the trust she gave
so close together, that their hair was mixed.
But I let a gal make a fool of me
distress thee, for, whatever power he have,
Oh baby rock...rock on down the line
As, when a fog is thinning off, one's gaze
Lord, I've tried and I've tried
I knew not one of them; but I perceived
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
people were running, nude and terrified,
Will I always be a dreamer dreaming of the used to be
More than a thousand o'er the gates I saw
There's a tear in my beer
opposed to that the great dry land o'ercovers,
We're getting closer to the grave each day
Thy very language makes thee manifest
Sets my sinful soul on fire
Now go thy way; and since thou livest still,
You look just like an angel but you haven't got wings,
Then each and all of them drew on together,
We'll take in all the honky tonks tonight we're havin' fun
who is that great one who seems not to mind
'Cause My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
Guido Bonatti see; and see Asdente,
Heavenly beauty all around
from what they purposed freed himself thereby.
Shoutin' get up the oxens
who come from there, where valeward flows the Nile.
When you'll need someone who will care
so from the band where Dido is they issued,
Like a flop-eared mule that ain't got no sense
When I perceived at last that I had reached
I thought I'd make her happy if I stepped aside
seized me so strongly for his love of me,
Lord I've tried and I've tried
now one and now another, till their branch
Ev'ry evenin' when the sun goes down
When we were come to where the thigh turns round,
That's all she wrote, Dear John,
And as a flame on oily things is wont
Every morning
even as my Leader had commanded me,
But they'll never never take her love from me.
and when to heaven its horses rose erect,
But honey among tigers you'd be queen
Canto LXII
excess of stench the deep abyss exhales,
KAW-LIGA - A, just stood there and never let it show
devised by him to cast himself below!"
Darling let's turn back my years and go back to yesterday
so this one called on me, as master-leech,
In this world, I'm just a drifter
They each and all were lying on the ground,
I just dropped by to tell you that I wish you happi-ness,
his wife then with the other drowned herself.
You may ramble and ramble this whole wide world over
Thus from the first of circles I went down
When He says come unto Me, will your soul be clean and free
had named the place, nor fondness for my son,
'til I found myself envired in a little colored pew.
it said to me, "recall me, if thou canst;
I've lost faith in dreams somehow
One and the selfsame tongue first wounded me,
Cause last night I heard you crying in your sleep
none waited for the second, or the third.
And you will hear Him if you'll just pray
were foreordained unto the holy place,
We're gonna have a new baby about the first of May
even so the upper on the other set
The river of life
depart not; but let one of you inform us
A car speeded by and the screamin' of brakes
if I am tempted to a little talk.
If the night is dark, you will soon see the day
to nether Hell I came, that other time,
Then I recall how my Jesus died
These words of gloomy color I beheld
Once I was happy as I could be
for which thou didst not fear to seize by fraud,
These blues have got me cryin'
mixed in a single face, where both were lost.
When you're tired of breaking other hearts
where thou shalt hear the shrieks of hopelessness
But we quarled and now we're through my little darlin'
and to Antaeus came, who full five ells,
To supply our every need
but I left none apparent there just now.
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
they smote them with their hands, and cried so loud,
Lord, I'm in Georgia doin' time
Let us leave him alone, nor talk in vain;
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain
they did not with due worship honor God;
And I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Livin'.
Canto LXIII
till we had reached the first place on the crag,
Baby, we're really in love
Stuck in the slime, they say: "Sullen we were
(Mind your own business)
he to the third said: "I 'd have Buoso run,
I'll be your baby
along a ditch which from it takes its shape.
So you fool ev'ry new love you find
After a little run both father and sons
And call my name
he going on ahead, and I behind,
When God dips His pen of love in my heart
hence look around thee well, and things thou 'lt see,
Are you doin' this for spite
that he a liar is, and sire of lies."
As I sit here alone in my cabin
for Christian were all enemies of his,
I like candy, I like cake, I like jam but goodness sakes
and with his oar beats whoso takes his ease.
Then you'll moanin'; Moa-oanin' The Blues.
or other inhibition binding man,
I'm going home, I'm going home
"whence dwells in you this overweening pride?
I took your letters from the shelf
when saying "˜I was there' shall do thee good,
Plea-ease - stay away from my heart
things that are far from us; to that extent
United in God's Kingdom, When The Book Of Life Is Read.
and if another troop should meet you, cause it
Dear friend there'll be no sad farewells
awake against his will, as each oft plied
I'm leaving now
where he behind him left his ill-strained nerves.
For He's coming someday, to bear your soul away
were changed at first into the latter's tongue.
Do you think that it's smart to jump from heart to heart
the sympathy which thou dost take for fear.
Well I'm standin' on a corner - With a bucket in my hand
for I in frays like this have been before."
Oh the blues come around
to clear an anchor clinging to a reef,
Now you're lookin' at a man that's gettin' kind-a mad
frogs stay with nothing but their muzzles out,
And tho I lost you to another
which overcame a hemisphere of gloom.
In a little pine grove by the old home
but see thou that thy tongue restrain itself.
We'd meet there ev'ry Ev'nin'
Canto LXIV
I did not die, nor yet remained alive;
When I can't get you off of my mind.
they give the warning which bids mariners
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart?
fastened upon his roasted face mine eyes,
So brother keep on prayin' and follow where you're lead
appears. But night is coming up again,
You tried to pretend that you were happy
and hurled it to some distance from the edge
Why when I married you, you were such a meek little thing
my Leader turned to me with that sweet look,
this world
so, one by one, the evil seed of Adam
Praise the Lord I saw the light.
But tell me why thou dost not mind descending
TOOK MY GAL TO THE PICTURE SHOW, JUST THE OTHER DAY,
Thus with uplifted face I cried; whereat
The trees stand so silent and still
down from the place at which one buckles cloaks.
Baby, we're really in love.
to tell us how within these knotted trunks
I'll tell them we grew tired of each other
Thus gathered I beheld the fair assembly
You can see this lad all alone
or other inhibition binding man,
We slaved to gain a worthless treasure
defended by a lovely little stream.
We'll go Honky Tonkin' 'round this town.
may quit thee for it in the world above,
You're drifting to far from the shore
above. On this side have their burial-place
Callin' You?, (Callin' You?)
What is it, then? Why, why dost thou hold back?
darlin I could never be ashamed of you.
wherewith I smitten was that final day;
When I get to Glory, I'm Gonna sing, sing, sing.
and steeper far than was the one before.
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you.
And my wise Teacher thereupon made signs
The first scene is that of a gambler
which o'er the Tyrol lock out Germany,
He walked every step up Calvary's ragged way
were situated so, that its lay-brethren
And drag you right down in disgrace
whereon I kept mine eyes so steadily,
Yipsy-doodle, (Rootie Tootie)
for flames were spread about within the tombs,
I was sad and blue, I was down-hearted, too
Canto LXV
up in the world, where he can still return."
"When they get down to pray, I'll just get up and leave
she turns her sphere, and blest enjoys herself.
This heart of mine - could never see
I bit in anguish both my hands. And they,
Out on this river
As is the appearance which, where many moats
But I'm satisfied with you.
He therefore took me up with both his arms,
A lady of the evening and you know the penalty
Toward us they came, and each of them cried out:
It should have been a tear of gladness
then said: "The spirits are within the fires,
So remember they're your brothers
He therefore took me up with both his arms,
Winter or summer
wander so far from that which is its wont,
If you'll follow in His light
My Leader stopped; and I to him, who still
Will you please make up your mind what you want me to do
on every side the deep and foul abyss
'cause it looks like rain
"Thou wouldst that I renew a hopeless grief,
A lawyer proved I wasn't born
who in the figure of a cross was stretched
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
alive; but if they 're dead, by what right, then,
To live in when this life is o'er
Those spirits, though, who nude and weary were,
YOU LEAVE ME ALONE AND RUN AROUND,
and Francis of Accorso, too; and him,
In anger, unkind words are said that make the teardrops start
and from the ten horns her support received,
Last night I walked the floor
not he who loses, but the one who wins.
So I'll say goodbye dear till tomorrow
the arch's summit, where the crag is highest.
The city slicker's waitin' for the country boy
"That here thy presence be not known, crouch down
But I'm satisfied with you.
while, calling him, his father cried: "Thou hold'st
Still I know I claim you for my own
Not yet had Nessus reached the other side,
I'm a-gonna do some riding on the midnight train
and lived, and there she left her empty body.
Say hey, good lookin' - what ya got cookin'?
that broken is stern judgment there above.
I knew not where the road would end
Canto LXVI
He answered me: "Therein are both Ulysses
But what good would it do
how from afar one's senses are deceived;
All my life I've been so lonesome
"What saidst thou? Held? Is he not still alive?
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you...
and with its fore feet seized upon his arms;
Let Jesus lead you home
till he have put her back again in Hell,
If just a few parted parents
speaking and weeping shalt thou see together.
I made a mistake, dear, by tellin' you lies
stoop, then, nor twist thy muzzle. He can still
I'm a rollin stone all alone and lost
chastised; no torment, saving thine own rage,
The old maid's waitin' for leap year to come
I said: "If, Teacher, thou hide not thyself
Your memory is chained to me
art crouching, safely now regain my side."
Lord, I'm in Georgia doin' time
And he to me: "If thine own star thou follow,
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain.
turned back to look again upon the pass
I got a feelin' called the blues, oh Lord
We thereupon proceeded further still,
My sister married a brakeman and it ain't no joke,
pray tell me why so pitiless toward mine
Drifting alone
The One whose knowledge everything transcends,
In old Alabam'
to flee from him, what is on this side seen
WITH SOMETHIN' A CIRCLIN' ROUND YA HEAD
of lawful love, became her father's mistress.
We don't get nearer or further or closer
"I fast not from a previous sight of him."
I'm satisfied with you.
distress thee, for, whatever power he have,
There all my fears and tears were lost
for which I pay the reckoning in this heat."
Drifting too far from the shore (from the shore)
whose tail and head were thrust between their loins,
Now, You're Gonna Change or I'm a-gonna leave.
has been in pain with us, and with our mates
There'll be nation against nation, there'll be war and rumor of war.
down into that profound and dark abyss.
There'll be no more sorrow
because of which I said: "These torments, Teacher,
Feelin' dandy, doin' swell
Canto LXVII
and who through their surprise forgot their pain.
I know I'd still want you-ooo-oo
They blended each with each in such a way
You've known so long that you were wrong
we with our oars made wings for our mad flight,
KAW-LIGA, was a lonely Indian never went nowhere
confiding in that noble speech of thine,
And there'll be no quarralin'
a frightful form of Justice may be seen.
I've been a fool about you, for way too long
"These orange cloaks," one answered, "are of lead,
Last night I dreamed of heaven and I saw my mother there
above extends, and draweth in below.
WHEN SOMETHIN BIGHTS YOU ON THE NOSE...FLY TROUBLE
But little did it profit him; for wings
Then all God's faithful children will raise up from the dead
Now I would have thee know that, when down here
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
down into that profound and dark abyss.
When I got thru with all my lies
by their four faces, how I looked myself,
Are you walkin and a-talkin with the lord?
hard in the face of one I struck my foot.
you are on my lonely mind.
But tell me: at the time of tender sighs,
Where the soul of man never dies
Each of these parts, except the golden one,
You'll cry and cry
such was the coarse, dense pitch, which, not by fire,
Swing wide the gate and leave it open
I swooned away as though about to die,
Say hey, good lookin' - what ya got cookin'?
now falls each star that rose when I set out,
Heaven holds all my treasures
that from the facts the telling differ not.
I tried so hard,my dear,to show that you're my every dream
where for a thousand there should refuge be;
My Son Calls Another Man Daddy
who lived with neither infamy nor praise.
But some glad day I'm going home
another's person in herself, as dared
I don't believe the good Lord meant for a man to win
each turned, and rolling back his weight, cried out:
It's rocky and it's rough
I then saw sitting and against each other
I'm traveling in the light
past all resistance by the minds of men;
We fight and we fuss like a dog and a cat
Canto LXVIII
distress thee, for, whatever power he have,
Countin' numbers 1-2-3
who, smoking like wet hands in winter-time,
That I'd be happy if we'd part
but not till each, as signal toward their leader,
The first scene is that of a gambler
"O Tuscan, thou that through the town of fire
I got the ho-on-ky tonk blues.
The kindly Teacher said: "Now, son, at last
I saw a teardrop on a rose.
upon their passing, lioness and cubs!"
Well I stopped into every place in town
which doubled my first fear. Hence thus I thought:
Now my gal's short and stubby,
when lo, another, which behind it came,
So why should we try anymore
save that baked clay his right foot is, and straighter
would you stop and try to save
were fitting, thereupon began to cry.
His life's blood almost gone
"Who has forbidden me the homes of pain?"
In this world of greed and hate will you wait til it's too late
Thou sayest that the sire of Silvio entered,
But I know she waits and prays
begins, and all the cruel trenches spans,
Colorado and Nevada through the deserts burnin' door
people can make against it no defence.
I was a fool to wander and a-stray
of those in here, so may thy nails
With your dying breath
in order to behold your punishments."
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
gave forth a wind, whence flashed vermilion light
I left her alone without saying goodbye
such on that gloomy slope did I become;
Well I stopped into every place in town
and when he saw us there he bit himself,
I'll try to repay
perhaps, have granted me a longer stay."
A neighbor was passing my garden one time
no more; but on mine ears there smote a wail,
Skies above are dark and stormy
saw infantry, who, under pledge of safety,
A slave too long to a heart of stone
that these sinned not; and though they merits have,
Everyone here tried to warn me
And then I said: "˜O brothers, ye who now
Are you walkin and a-talkin with the lord?
Canto LXIX
nor hast thou only now thereto disposed me."
Goodbye to the fields, that I used to roam
that he could make no use of them at all.
As I travel down life's road
twisting and lashing its sharp-pointed horn.
jesus, he died on calvarys tree
that every part on every other shines,
So now that she is leavin'
one of thy troop, at whose side we may be,
Where the soul........never dies
I know not whether I was here too bold,
I'm so lonesome I could cry
in front of one, and clings to him all over;
The mortgage is due and - I can't pay
and backward it behooved him to advance,
Oh, I shined up my shoes and then I slicked down my hair
is wholly vain, and we, if others bring
I Told A Lie To My Heart.
which crosses from the fourth bank to the fifth.
Now I lay awake, dear, with tears in my eyes
this deep abyss and those that people it.
She just couldn't stand my disgrace
And he to me, like one aware, replied:
If she drinks while you taught her and if she smokes you showed her how
beyond it with us, but with quicker steps;
Lost on the river
He was a haughty person in the world;
I stood there and listened, and I heard this prayer
What was the master's power who girded him,
Now I've learned to slow my temper down and not to pick no scraps no more
"All fearfulness must here be left behind;
But it just don't matter now
shatters, lays low, and carries off its boughs;
Saying you'd Come back and Stay
thou 'lt know both of himself and of his sins."
He was doing very finely and he appreciates your love,
I come to take you to the other shore,
Ev'rybody's thinkin' 'bout somebody else
the other, flying upward, raised his breast;
I watched my dream world crumble like clay
where thou must arm thyself with fortitude!"
That never should have been said
Then the great provost turned toward Farfarello,
I never knew i loved you so;
on which lean all the other circling rocks,
Sinner man won't you stop now and pray
and said: "Say whatsoe'er thou wilt to them."
Simple tunes are hard to sing
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assented to my going back a little.
Cause I'm writin' your name down on every page
As, when a heavy fog is breathed abroad,
jesus, he died on calvarys tree
thy feet thou hast upon the little sphere,
I gave up my friends, I left my home
for this wild beast, on whose account thou criest,
On that great day I'm going home
I 'll neither say, nor show thee, who I am,
Baby, we fit like a glove
and cannot walk, but plunges here and there;
I could tell my heart I'm glad we parted
if God be angry with them? and, if not,
Won't it be so bright and fair
in Mongibello's smithy black with smoke,
That I was glad the day you set me free
"Step forward, Alichino, and Calcabrina,"
My number's in the book
and to Antaeus came, who full five ells,
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
"Henceforth" said I, "I would not have thee speak,
Til' I hear an old train rollin' down the line
seemed weary to me; then methought I saw
In this wicked world of sin
But who are ye, adown whose cheeks there drips,
Today I passed you on the street
when for my mates a greater pain I win!"
Then I began to wonder, if I had made a blunder,
as Livy writes, who maketh no mistakes;
She didn't do a bit of harm,
and such good daring coursed into my heart,
No use to sit at home and fine
Then to the Poet I: "Now was there ever
Nothing but daydreams to haunt me
thou peerest," he replied, "it comes about
HIT EVERYTHING EXCEPT THAT FLY
"˜Father, much less shall we be pained, if us
Raised in the likeness of my Savior
His face appeared to me as long and big
No more darkness no more night
the former thereupon replied to me,
Up there I know, there'll be no pain
Red eyes he hath, a dark and greasy beard,
They nailed his hands there on the cross
and down through verdant pastures forms a stream.
Where is the dream I once knew
to lead the life of stupid animals,
The mem'ry of your helping hand will buoy me on with hope
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down from the Casentino's green-clad hills,
I'm going home, I'm going home
Minos commits it to the seventh ravine.
'Cause if you mind your business, then you won't be mindin' mine.
thinking it done because I craved to eat,
Oh heavenly Father, help me understand
in Rome, in days of false and lying gods.
And I won't be home no more.
that from the pyre it seems to rise, whereon
When my life here is o'er I'm going home
I mean that when an ill-born soul appears
While she's circlin' through the canyons, can't you see that mountain stream
turned back, and looked at me; and then he said:
There all my fears and tears were lost
even such was the descent of that ravine;
And call my name
Thereat the common back was broken up,
Of a heartbroken mother and baby
Love, which absolves from loving none that 's loved,
The canned stuff's spoiled - else the jar's got broke
my heart, that dear and kind paternal face
I'll have a new body
till at Goví¨rnolo it joins the Po.
But one word led to another
Hence, that my Leader might give heed, I placed
The Angel of Death
Then to all wisdom's Sea I turned around,
Tears fallin' down your pretty cheeks,
What is it, then? Why, why dost thou hold back?
A lady of the evening and you know the penalty
a few, who by these sins polluted were."
And I'd bow my head and cry again
that wind was changed into the following words:
We're getting closer to the grave each day
and if in answering I was mute just now,
I know I'd still want you.
that ye should know each other's veiled desires?"
Just come along with me
the ambush of the horse, which made the gate,
Where is the dream I once knew
azure upon a yellow pouch I saw,
All alone I bear the shame
so sorely wept, that out of sympathy
Cause in the last week I ain't slept a wink
but moved to anger seemed the one who spoke.
When you're not in my arms
nothing has ever by thine eyes been seen
CAUSE HE'S A BULKY STUBORN FOOL
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A clamp ne'er bound so tightly board to board;
ALL THESE YEARS I'VE SET AND CRIED,
to where his breast had been, he turned his tail,
Now friend if you'll just listen to me you'll get some good hard earned advice
of lesser suffering, ever comfort them.
Said the little paper boy, there on the street
and though a long way thou hast gone already,
As though his heart would break
but thou wast not so true a witness there,
So, Why Don't You Love Me like you used to do.
but Virgil said: "At what art gazing still?
Yes Something Got A Hold Of Me (Oh! Lord)
while southward now the nights pursue their way;
Darling, I could never be ashamed of you
thou surely must recall it, since at times,
It looks to me like I been cheated out of my rib
turn him into a snake, and make of her
Now here were two grown up people
and curb my genius more than I am wont,
It's the California Zephyr, the Union Pacific Queen
he still raised up his brows against his Maker,
I love you still - you win again.
with one side they make shelter for the other;
And just how many tears are shed
even so who governs France shall yield to this."
Heavenly beauty all around
and said: "Off yonder, thou malicious bird!"
While she's circlin' through the canyons, can't you see that mountain stream
not far from here, who speaks, and, since unbound,
Jesus died for me long ago
A shade then at the tomb's uncovered mouth
And I shall spend eternity
which fell into the following round, was heard
We only knew she never slept when we were out at night
Herein those ugly Harpies make their nest,
Where they meet you and they greet you,
gushed upward though the lids; whereat the cold,
Be careful of stones that you throw.
as thou hast said, to land upon the shore?"
And when our work is over heaven with Him we'll share
an agí¨d man, all white with ancient hair,
And now I've got another date
No thickets rough and dense as these are owned
And call my name
so woeful issued thence, that of a truth
I know that she's waiting in vain
if lashed and beaten by opposing winds.
Are you on the road that leads to wrong
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retaliation thus is seen in me."
Bees Just Waitin' for honey
along the gulley of the ditch, for none
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
the shade of him who through his cowardice
She's long gone, and now I'm lonesome blue
The other, who behind me treads the sand,
I've lost my heart it seems
I therefore said: "Who, Teacher, are the people
But that won't worry me
Then round he turned, and seemed to be of those
I'm traveling in the light
nor ev'n the bounden love which should have cheered
And they left him to die like a tramp on the street.
before He placed the Keys in his control?
But I can't get you off of my mind.
I 'll neither say, nor show thee, who I am,
Worries and fears I claimed for my own
A swamp it forms which hath the name of Styx,
ALL I DO IS SET AND CRY,
lo, a six-footed serpent hurls itself
When your soul is burdened down
spoilers of property and highway robbers.
You take true love - and give the blame
this side the middle facing us they came,
He told me a story,of sorrow and woe
its face; and, taking down his shepherd-staff,
Of stitches taken all a - round.
As flat-boats sometimes lie upon the shore,
You thought that you would hurt me,
it seemed the one who by the pain was pierced;
AND IT'S JUST ONE PESKY LITTLE FLY
and he who made our ladder with his hair,
I must learn to live without you
among the rocks and boulders of the crag,
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
The courtesan who never turned away
You're asking me for sympathy
Anchises' son, I sang, who came from Troy
She's got "purty" eyes of blue
And I, whose heart was well nigh broken, said:
And every night I'll pray dear that
I still give praise and render thanks to God.
The blood is white and spouting steam
When one foot he had raised to go away,
A distant uncle passed away and left me quite a batch
lead him to do what I myself regret.
Go tell your troubles to the moon
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the undiscerning life which made them foul,
Oh, they'll never ever take her love from me.
I reached a region silent of all light,
All my dreams have died and vanished
But if to know the first root of our love
When i cross them smokey mountains. i'll be countin' every mile,
upon the Picene Plain; then suddenly
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
"We see," he said, "like one whose sight is poor,
If you only loved me half as much as I love you
for I full thirty spans of him perceived,
From the start to the VJ day
offends God least, and hence receives least blame?
The log train is silent
the wood, I mean, of thickly crowded shades.
He may be in trouble and may need a helping hand wait for the light to shine
Bestir thee, then, and with thy finished speech,
Pull yourself together and keep looking for the sign wait for the light to shine
than thou believest are the sepulchers.
We'll show the folks a brand new dance that never has been done
in which the sacred seed may live again
He never stopped prayin' for me
Since each of them in common shares with me
When you hair has turned from Gold to Silver
And he to me: "The honorable fame,
Each eye looked toward the west
through a disloyal tyrant's treachery.
I wonder, I wonder - what she's thinking of
if Charon, therefore, findeth fault with thee,
Well Lord I got 'em,
with greater haste I therefore begged the spirit
If the judge says pay her forty dollars a week
"Nearer than thou dost hope" he then replied,
Where an angel from above
past all resistance by the minds of men;
Your dad-ad-dy is lon-one-some
Like other spirits, for our spoils we 'll come,
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain.
where cold the days are for the sinful folk.'
But the Devil said, "Don't you go in!"
When, sighing, he had tossed his head, he said:
And call around next May or June
when looking for an advantageous grip,
'Cause the blues come around when the sun goes down
a while he looked at me, then bowed his head,
Are gathered to weep
when she had seen her dead Polỳxena,
HIT EVERYTHING EXCEPT THAT FLY
Canto LXXV
held to the left, and I behind him moved.
I must learn to live without you
and tore him into pieces bit by bit;
Can't you hear the Blessed Saviour Callin' You?
know, then, that towers they are not, but Giants;
Are the pictures from life's other side
dives under water, when a hawk draws near,
A sweatin' and swearin'
assist him so that I may be consoled.
You're just in time to be too late
Thou hast with such desire disposed my heart
I'm gonna keep drinkin'
who come from there, where valeward flows the Nile.
Should you go first and I remain to finish with the scroll
which fortify that region comfortless;
Well, you're just in time to celebrate
the words of truth that she addressed to thee!
Oh you stayed by my side till you got all my money
to Messer Guido and Angiolello, too,
And I stare at the water so deep
for hair they had small serpents and horned snakes,
I had me a woman who couldn't be true
in order to behold your punishments."
Why the Lord took her away.
and from idolaters how differ ye,
Built it on hope and the love I thought was true
and tell me whether all these tonsured ones
Sinner hear now what I say
and led me to the bush, which all in vain
But I knew her mother gentlemen why her mother was a saint
from Rinier da Corneto and Rinier Pazzo,
There sat my Saviour on his golden throne
this side of it One such descends the slope,
Until the last one had returned she'd always keep a light
and I compare more closely with a Giant,
I'm a long gone daddy I don't need you anyhow
who can, if ever I attain to her.
Well I'm in love I'm in love with a beautiful gal
because of which I said: "These torments, Teacher,
WITH TEARS IN HIS EYES, ON THE CROSS THERE HE DIED,
will to a conference have them come with him;
would you stop and try to save
Great sorrow filled my heart on hearing this,
Lord, I'm in Georgia doin' time
of whom I knew both Hector and Aeneas,
I Told A Lie To My Heart.
the dispositions three which Heaven rejects,
And with the dawn I'll wake and yawn
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as in a callous spot,
Never again will I knock on your door
then Florence changes folk and government.
So you fool ev'ry new love you find
began again: "Why dost thou break me off?
As I helped him cross the highway
And with his arms he then embraced my neck,
And I'm never no more to mention his name
such seed takes root; excepting, too,
Who is a legend
When Nature ceased from making animals
Ain't had no lovin' like a huggin' and a kissin'
and if thou weepest not, at what art wont
The vows that we make are only to break
over a bubbling stream, that poureth down
'Cause I ain't got no way of knowin'
then at thy pleasure shalt thou hurry me."
And get that chip off of your shoulder
"O thou that in the valley fortune-blest,
So if you're ever sad and lonely
they followed, wholly to a single place.
Then if you no longer care
were for thy furious pride a fitting pain."
There just ain't nobody knows what I go through
Democritus, who thinks the world chance-born,
A THOUSAND TIMES MY POOR SOUL DIED,
shed by the Trojans, and in that long war,
The blues come around when the sun goes down
so crags ran from the bottom of the cliff
And a freight train whistle taught me how to cry.
up o'er the crag, as far as the next arch
But I can't get you off of my mind.
Thereat the common back was broken up,
Upsy-daisy, (Rootie Tootie)
"Who has forbidden me the homes of pain?"
Too many boyfriends and sociable sals may drive your sweetheart away
and were on that part of the crag, which hangs
You wouldn't worry me half as much as you do
that these were words that differed from the first.
ONE TIME YOU KNOW I LOVED YOU TRUE,
descend, and who propose to show him Hell."
Just think but for the grace of God it would be you instead of him
as thou hast said, to land upon the shore?"
The house it leaks - it needs a new top
we found that colored water roaring so,
I'll never get out of this world alive
turned his face round toward me, and said: "Now wait!
I'm alone and oh, so blue tonight
Canto LXXVII
and I behind him moving, as I made
If we sin somehow we pay
that, when he saw his wife approaching him,
in a long, long while
so fiercely mad did Athamas become,
My world is honest and true
"Who, Teacher, is he yonder, who is tortured
The snow falls 'round my window
the thing which it behooves him to escape,
You got me chasin' Rabbits, spittin' out teeth and Howlin' At The Moon.
Cocytus was completely frozen up.
That's home sweet home to me,
and speak, we will both hear and speak with you,
You can see this lad all alone
but be not silent, if thou issue hence,
So I'm gonna tell you goodbye,
of that bad Worm who perforates the world.
I was afraid to scold her, so I just gently told her,
still sports for this a hairless chin and neck."
Then suddenly I got that old time feeling
which had a certain color and design,
Rootie Tootie, (Rootie Tootie)
and if thereof thou wouldst have pledge or proof,
He stood all alone with his head bowed down
Whence I to him: "The havoc and great slaughter
FOR NO MATTER HOW MUCH EARTHLY WEALTH YOU GET HOLD,
where difference in fault unmateth them.
But it gives you misery
a cave, from which his view was not cut off,
We can find us a brand new recipe?
which knows not man! Bethink you of the seed
There all my fears and tears were lost
with all its host of burdened citizens."
Just like the blind
confiding in that noble speech of thine,
The house it leaks - it needs a new top
then with its teeth it wounded both his cheeks;
If the things I said was to break your heart
And then, addressing me, they said: "O Tuscan,
Baby, I'll be your baby
beneath which each of them was changing face.
And so my heart is paying now for things I didn't do
my Teacher and, behind his shoulders, I.
Then one day a man put his hand on my arm
if any one therein is just; and tell me
Move over nice dog cause a bad dog's moving in
save that baked clay his right foot is, and straighter
And his eyes they brightly sparkle at the pretty things he view
Canto LXXVIII
for after him shall come from westward lands
Strange as it seems, somehow I love you yet
Thereat I turned around, and saw before me,
Then will you be ready to go home
that, if thou canst, thou mayst thieve secretly."
He fell in love with an Indian maid over in the antique store
Thus he set forth, and thus he had me enter
Are the pictures from life's other side
and weary. Cloaks they had equipped with cowls
But I know a guy that didn't try to get along,
much praise and therefore I accede to it,
Colorado and Nevada through the deserts burnin' door
But tell me if among these passing people
When you're alone and blue tonight my little darlin'
Then quieted a little was the fear,
Said don't make me no coffee Babe,
even such was the descent of that ravine;
I remember back when you were nice and sweet
A little further on the Centaur stopped
Please heed His call and in sin don't fall
the coin!" said Sinon, "I 'm for one sin here,
In anger, unkind words are said that make the teardrops start
and overhead the brook's mist shades them so,
I'm a number not a name
to trample on the soil, because the flames,
Just like you used to be
ought surely to have answered one of them.
You got me chasin' Rabbits, spittin' out teeth and Howlin' At The Moon.
Lucretia, Julia, Martia and Cornelia,
But I got to the river so lonesome I wanted to die, oh Lord
from what they purposed freed himself thereby.
I think I'd quit my doggish ways if you'd take me for your groom
so doing I beheld the Minotaur;
Yeah the honky tonk blues
of size proportioned to so huge a bird;
Neath a cold gray tomb of stone
This insolence of theirs is nothing new,
But I know a man that didn't try to get along,
what time the Giants caused the Gods to fear;
On that great day I'm going home
And that thou put me to no further speech,
And then your lived ones
that with thine eyes thou quite attain the face
Now I don't want you here anymore
"All fearfulness must here be left behind;
But I know she waits and prays
"These have no hope of death, and so low down
'Cause I ain't got no way of knowin'
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as doth a boar, when from the sty let out.
"Out in this cold wide world all alone
"In that thine arrogance, O Capaneus,
The angels came for her, at the first fall of snow
Thereat my Leader turned and said: "Now wait;
Are you on the road that leads to wrong
thou shouldst not thus have crucified his sons.
came the day you said you'd be my own
my wise Guide leads me by a different path
I really learned the meaning of living and loving I've been down that road before
perhaps, shalt thou receive what thou dost ask."
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
but, as I told him, his own spitefulness
There's been troubles and tribulation, there'll be sorrow and despair.
he said to me, "for I shall win the fight,
Mississippi, she's Louisina Bound, of the trains in the southland
While one was saying this, the other spirit
I'll just set back and watch you,
"here 's one of Santa Zita's Ancients! Put him
Once he was fair and once he was young
Averrhoí¨s, who made the famous comment.
That I will never know contentment
nor e'en with what above the Red Sea lies,
Rootie Tootie, she's my Monday gal.
"O my dear Leader, who hast made me safe
This city life has really got me down
assist him so that I may be consoled.
oh! lordy! guess I'm never gonna lose,
in Mongibello's smithy black with smoke,
Where the soul........never dies.
of those that from the heavens had rained, who, vexed,
We only knew she never slept when we were out at night
when in the world I wrote the lofty verses,
On the old log train
those townsmen who rebuilt her afterward
Your evil heart will be your ruin
but with dry feet, was passing over Styx.
I been lovin' that gal for so doggone long
who so deserving was of reverence!
If you're lovin' me like i'm lovin' you
leaveth on earth such traces of himself,
jesus, he died on calvarys tree
he, whether it were wrath or conscience bit him,
(Mind your own business)
and those on fire inflamed Augustus so,
Will you move to this Heavenly Home.
"Whoe'er thou art, sad soul, that holdest down
And never comin' back
Canto LXXX
which fell into the following round, was heard
Oh baby rock...rock on down the line
he 'll then so act, that 'gainst Focara's wind
You'll toss around
and happy, that I begged her to command.
Yet there's consolation in my heart
And as a flame on oily things is wont
Ev'rybody's thinkin' 'bout somebody else
its mosques already in that valley there,
I could tell my heart I'm glad we parted
were naked, and were sorely spurred to action
Because she worshipped you
and said: "Off yonder, thou malicious bird!"
And so my heart is paying now for things I didn't do
which single used to be, and prompt to speech,
For He's coming someday, to bear your soul away
in that fair country where the sí¬ is heard;
Just as long as she's with me
said I, "and take such hold upon my faith,
Than change you for somebody new.
for thy peace would we pray to Him, since pity
She left the sink a'saggin',
when with his followers Hannibal took flight,
Though our paths in life have parted
lest it should run when virtue guides it not;
"The bad girl who lived down the street."
which like a scorpion's weapon armed its tip.
So, swing wide your gate of love, open it for me
About strange punishments must I make verses,
I thought I was right but I must of been wrong
his wife then with the other drowned herself.
Raised in the likeness of my Savior
"Papí¨ Satí n, papí¨ Satí n, alí¨ppí«!"
Oh, how my poor heart will pine
to learn who that wretch is, who thus
There's pictures of love and of passion
if in the lovely life I judged aright;
On this road of sin are you sorrow bound
in which the sacred seed may live again
And I took a chance, and we happened to dance
So eager for the voyage did I make
Before it is too late
as the disciple him who teaches; hence,
So help your brother along the road no matter where he starts
unless the marsh's fog conceal it from thee."
In my heart, I know that you'll come through
and seed of their conception and their birth.
You are on my lonely mind
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I pocketed up there, and here myself.
Well I'm in love I'm in love with a beautiful gal
who he was, thou, if Tuscan, now knowst well.
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.
I, therefore: "Teacher, say what town is this?"
Just like you used to be
thou hadst it not so ready; but just so,
Lawd, the blues come around
when we attained that narrow passage-way,
I been lovin' that gal for so doggone long
When I was 'neath his tomb, he looked at me
Make my way among the crowd
was, though he go both nude and hairless now,
I thought of things that might have been
I surely, Teacher, ought to recognize
'N' the hitch-hiker's waitin' for a ride
unhelped by Will Divine and favoring fate?
A House Without Love is not a home.
Thou hast with such desire disposed my heart
But I guess you're the two-timin' kind
the spirits so, that they would fain be deaf.
Last night I dreamed of heaven and it filled my heart with joy
and when the wings were opened wide enough,
I have heard your stories about your fast trains
These churchmen were, who have no hairy covering
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.
That Lord then, who had brought me thither, said:
And drive your buggy back to town
To sexual vice so wholly was she given,
I like candy, I like cake, I like jam but goodness sake
the third is Ovid, Lucan is the last.
In a little pine grove by the old home
those cursí¨d words; for I did not believe
...And Howlin' At The Moon.
because the Fishes o'er the horizon quiver,
How's about cooking somethin' up with me?
And he to me replied: "I have no knowledge
Life sometimes can be so cruel that a heart will pray for death
and still more will there be, until the Hound
I asked for another loan but the banker turned me down
then, sighing, and with weeping voice, he said:
You know that you are free to go dear
And I: "Good Leader, I but keep my heart
I got all that I can do just to mind my own
We then upon the fourth embankment came,
Are gathered to weep
the costly use of cloves in gardens where
Lord, I've been waitin' too long
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and that while in his body he was there.
To-day I tried to eat a steak with a big old table-spoon
that time and place seemed fitting to my Leader,
I had me a woman who couldn't be true
since which till now I 've had him by the hair;
Where they meet you and they greet you,
Red eyes he hath, a dark and greasy beard,
On the Tennessee Border
So dark it was, so deep and full of mist,
And I buried my heart with her
been banished from the natural life of man;
He likes everything from a soup to hay
which my veracious Leader promised me;
Feelin' dandy, doin' swell
from Heaven, and to my Teacher turned; with signs
If you're thinkin' of me like i'm thinkin' of you
Israel, with both his father and his sons,
If the judge says pay her forty dollars a week
that these were words that differed from the first.
I'M TIRED OF WAITIN', HONEY DO YOU LOVE ME, HUH.
which made me con thy book, avail me now.
And deny my God and doon my soul
with one half of their bodies towered up
If the wife and I are fussin', brother that's our right
his haughty undertaking he attempted
If the things I said was to break your heart
is pity. Who, then, guiltier is than he
I could smile and say that I don't care
wherefore, one people governs, and the other
Then you cry and ask the judge won't you please turn him loose
said: "How am I to come, if thou take fright,
(Oh you) know that I love you no other will do
"O ye that are, and wherefore I know not,
And my red rose is turning white.
And he to me then: "After struggling long
The angels came for her, at the first fall of snow
it spread its hind feet out along his thighs,
You are on my lonely mind
And one of them, who felt aggrieved, perhaps,
Through valleys, o'er mountains and plains
in fashion; these he flapped in such a way,
No matter how I struggle and strive
and whether he have wronged me thou shalt know.
'N' the gambler's still waitin' for that Ace in the hole
their eyes, moist only inwardly before,
I'll tell you right now I've had enough of that
and in whose walls still others must be locked,
Then one day a man put his hand on my arm
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had named the place, nor fondness for my son,
There's no room in my heart for the blues
A painted people found we there below,
But I guess you're the two-timin' kind
along with them, intent on their sad plaint;
I know I couldn't love you as before.
whom out of the right way Photinus drew."
Well shut my mouth, i'm a'headin' south, on the dixie cannon-ball
As champions oiled and nude are wont to do,
She is sleeping all alone
The Teacher thus: and turning me himself,
So if you're ever sad and lonely
Scolding, he said: "Why greedier art thou
My life with you baby has been one hard knock
And I to him: "I come not by myself;
My tires and tubes are doin' fine but the air is showin' through
a place art set, and to such punishment,
As I stood alone, with mem'ries of home
they spoke but seldom and with gentle voice.
Make believe that wrong is right
and standing up erect, my rested eyes
About my daddy
from every country come together here;
But I let a gal make a fool of me
and as among the greedy Germans yonder,
If you can't treat me right then get out of my life
when for my mates a greater pain I win!"
When I get to Glory, I'm gonna sing, sing, sing
Dioscorides I mean; Orpheus I saw,
Darlin', if our romance ends, let us part the best of friends
"O Phlegyas, Phlegyas," said my Master then,
I run around in circles
and said to me: "Now be thou strong and bold!
Because to us, that's just what he is
"must such great wickedness be left behind."
And I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Livin'.
From the four previous strips two arms were made;
If you're lovin' me like i'm lovin' you
see how he writhes, and utters not a word!
Alone and forsaken by fate and by man
"Into this bottom of the dismal shell
Cry, oh, lord.
of him, who still was looking at his wound,
And trials come no more
I verily believe it pleased my Leader,
Sets my sinful soul on fire
that I could not have seen just where it was,
I saw the light I saw the light
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Thereon I turned my back but yestermorn;
NOW YOU PICK A PERFECT NIGHT IN JUNE
hence, utterly confused, I checked my steps.
You're only lookin' around
a mighty tumult made, which sweeps around
'Cause I ain't got nothin' but time
their old refrain; and after they had reached us,
I've got to get rollin'
a whirlwind rose, and smote our vessel's prow;
On who I'd spent my money, turnin' into dy - na - mite,
to which I was, perhaps, too great a bane."
Take these chains from my heart and set me free
but after I had reached a mountain's foot,
But now you've gone dear, breakin' my heart
"I 'll tell thee very briefly," he replied.
Jesus is calling, calling night and day
of other kinds equipped with larger scales.
I know I'd still want you-oooo-oo
I, who am dead, must needs conduct him here
A picture from the past came slowly stealing
was savagely blaspheming, said: "What sort
She's sweeter than wine and brother she's mine
my voice, however, came not as I thought.
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
There is a devil here behind, who thus
But ever since she left this town
by reason of my limbs which heavy are,
From this world I'll soon be goin'
was, though he go both nude and hairless now,
Sneak it on over (move it on over)
of Siena? Surely not the French by far!"
Where all..........is joy
that 's why I eye thee more than all the rest."
A blossom from an orange tree in your hair
what I became, of both of these deprived.
It's rocky and it's rough
a group. The wood behind these two was full
I wish that I was with my darling
Alí¨ssio Interminí¨i of Lucca art;
Thiinking of you
I 'll do as one who weepeth while he speaks.
If it had two pair of pants I would burn the coat
to look at me, than at the other foul ones?"
You tried to pretend that you were happy
who is that great one who seems not to mind
I'll have a new body
making such havoc of him, that therefor
I rode my horse to town to day and a gas pump we did pass
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I followed him, and not far had we gone,
(So) never again will I knock on your door
so this one called on me, as master-leech,
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart?
which said: "Pope Anastasius I contain,
I could tell my friends I threw you down
and seems in body still alive above.
This is the dreaded hour
because they cannot utter it with perfect speech.
I've got new fish to fry
weeps and is saddened in his every thought;
Weeping as they lay my darling
by those wild beasts, that hate the tilled estates
When your soul is weary and it seems you've lost your way
said I, "and take such hold upon my faith,
Are away beyond the skies
so that it colored both my cheeks, and then
To the one he had loved thru the years.
of looking into it, unless one climb
'Cause my heart would still want you-ooo-oo
as did my Teacher o'er that selvage-bank,
Go and leave me alone with these blues
Tully and Livy, and moral Seneca;
We were happy, oh so happy little darlin'
nor yonder 'neath the cold sky did the Don,
I'll live in mem'ry's garden dear with happy days we've known
were changed at first into the latter's tongue.
How's about cooking somethin' up with me?
which, gathering them together, cuts them off.
I'll gas up my hot rod stoker we'll get hotter than a poker
And I to him: "Even though I come, I stay not;
Your evil heart will be your ruin
my garment's hem, exclaimed: "How wonderful!"
Just because I'm feelin' blue
some lying are; and some are standing up,
I'll never see that gal of mine
and Moses the law-giver and obedient;
Where the soul........never dies
to keep its peace; and such we were, as still
But some glad day I'm going home
nor do I think there ever was one such.
My dream is a treasure that I'll always keep I dreamed about mama last night
who, while its people slept, unlocked Faenza."
That when I get a kiss I think that something's wrong
and toward us they were knitting close their brows,
I could picture him while living, curly hair protruding lips,
as are the grades he wishes it sent down.
I just can't go on, dear, with tears in my eyes
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then fasting proved more powerful than pain."
Last night I dreamed of heaven my eternal home sweet home
afraid to tell of without further proof;
As they go strollin' by
would fain excuse myself, and all the while
Just as long as she's with me
and such good daring coursed into my heart,
But it just don't matter now
Alí¨ssio Interminí¨i of Lucca art;
I heard that lonesome whistle blow
till thou return, I 'll talk with this wild beast,
NO ONE KNOWS THE TORTURE I WENT THROUGH,
for great desire constraineth me to learn
But it gives you misery
was saying as it gazed at us: "O me!"
For they know not what they do
will cause thy triumph on the lofty seat.'
When I said I do, she must have read my thinkin',
of this soft place, and our burned, shrivelled faces
Love is satisfied to either win or lose
than that which took me from the other life.
Each eye looked toward the west
but I can not suppress it here; hence, Reader,
You look just like an angel but you haven't got wings,
And then, addressing me, they said: "O Tuscan,
'Cause I ain't got nothin' but time
such did that peaceless animal make me,
But I'm satisfied with you.
would fain excuse myself, and all the while
I just can't help lovin' you
he then began to say, "thou, too, Cagnazzo;
And just how many tears are shed
of looking into it, unless one climb
I talked with a stranger, so sad and alone.
all feeling had departed from my face,
If you're lovin' me like i'm lovin' you
so from the broken twig together issued
The river of life
said I, "and let us from the wall descend,
When you whispered, "Dear, I worship thee!"
but with them there he did not long remain,
She may have forsaken some other like me
but if it please you still to go ahead,
I ASKED MY GAL TO MARRY ME, RECKON WHAT SHE SAID,
and for whose sake the human race contends;
I'm gonna keep drinkin'
on whom the woeful fire is falling there,
And say sweet nothin's like you used to coo
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He reached the gate, and with a little wand
That side's yours and this side's mine
that in the second ring thou art, and wilt be,
We were happy, oh so happy little darlin'
who could not raise their bodies. Two of these
Too many times I've watched my castles fall
My kindly Teacher then began to say:
And smile don't regret but live and forget
By several years the writing lied to me.
I went to the country - just the other day
and as we followed up the lonely path
And ever since she let me down
thus surely to avoid both sand and fire;
What's the use to bother your head
their color changed, and gnashed their teeth together,
I know you're gonna love me after all
A good soul never goes across from hence;
I watched my dream world crumble like clay
the means to give my sighs a greater flight.
To give you a heart true and real
I have an arm that 's loose for needs like this."
He spreads the burnin' sand with water.
Of those things only should one be afraid,
THAT MULE AIN'T BOTHERED WITH AN ITCH...FLY TROUBLE
And he to me: "These things will be made clear
Death's angels took her away
where folk in such a wrangle are engaged;
'Cause I just don't like this way of livin'.
of men; but forth I put upon the deep
Not even the angels; in heaven will know
I saw a shape, which would have chilled with wonder
The mean old freight train blues.
My Leader then took hold of me at once,
To take it the rest of my life.
till he have put her back again in Hell,
haul up on a crack up on a wheelbarrow blackstone
contented are, because they hope to come,
They won't leave you alone till they've got your last dollar
but bore me to the summit of the arch,
She's long gone, and now I'm lonesome blue
and let the country clown his mattock ply!"
There is one smiling face the gods would see
whom neither I nor even my Leader noticed,
But love to you was just a song
"Hence, " so mayst thou, from these dark places saved,
I have no mother, nor even a dad"
And he to me: "If thou wouldst have me bear thee
Like me I guess he'd like to rest
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the many unheard of toils and pains I saw,
I hear the children laughing out with glee
He freed mine eyes, and said: "Direct thou now
You just look through your cookbook
alloweth none to pass along her way,
And be on his way
ears issued on his undeveloped cheeks;
To claim the Saviour for your own
by calling out: "˜Help, help, good Vulcan, help!'
Though life to him had been unkind
But certainly, if I remember well,
YOU CAN TREASURE YOUR WEALTH, YOUR DIAMONDS AND GOLD,
And so mayst thou return to the sweet world,
If you'll follow in His light
I followed him, and not far had we gone,
Wait for the light to shine wait for the light to shine
so stuck together, that in little time
Wicky-wacky, (Rootie Tootie)
to see if thou alone art more than we!"
Well I'm in love I'm in love with a beautiful gal
now to all recognition makes them dark.
I traveled from Texas to old Louisanne
and he availed himself of time and place,
When time goes crawling by
Into the one who crouched they set their teeth,
But honey among tigers you'd be queen
because the first ones form a solid block,
When you'll need someone who will care
Art thou so quickly sated with the wealth,
My eyes beheld a tragic story
from serious dangers which I had to face,
I'm going home, I'm going home
is that great Chiron who brought up Achilles;
BUT SHE WENT AND CHANGED HER MIND, HOW I REGRET THAT DAY,
and what is theirs, as clearly shown thou 'lt hear.
But today I'm saying my first prayer
as it is wont to do in certain cases,
Our story's so old again has been told
for at a gateway less concealed than this
BUT SHE WENT AND CHANGED HER MIND, HOW I REGRET THAT DAY,
the dust, assembling of its own accord,
The simple things have gone forever
They blended each with each in such a way
Oh Lord, please stop that terrible train
and, all alone, I saw the Saladin.
And I'm never no more to mention his name
"O Gií como" it said, "da Sant'Andrea,
I'm leaving now
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They struck each other, not with hands alone,
That dreams will soon come true
Raising mine eyes, I thought that I should still
We drift like a wave from the shore
Love, which soon seizes on a well-born heart,
I wrote a nice, long letter
split from the chin to where one breaketh wind;
(So) never again will I knock on your door
which seemed from human privies to have come.
And then there was a silence
while to the gnat the fly is giving way, "
Wedding bells are ringing in the chapel
by reason of a vague sound issuing thence.
I want to live and love always
that shouldst thou rightfully of him complain,
Weary blues from waitin'
than merely with his arms the Giants do;
We'll be strong enough to face our last goodbye
By stairs like these shall we descend hereafter;
To that beautiful home up there
perchance withdraws thee from my memory so,
BUT SHE QUICKLY TURNED AWAY, AND THEN SHE TOLD ME THIS.
He freed mine eyes, and said: "Direct thou now
Hang the scenes that're painted from life
On coming up to us, they watched me long
THERE'S A STORY OLD, THAT HAS OFTEN BEEN TOLD,
and who just now didst talk in Lombard, saying:
You've grown cold and no longer care for me
of size proportioned to so huge a bird;
It's hard to know another's lips will kiss you
three times it made her whirl with all the waters;
Louiville Nashville Montgomery the cap'tal of Ala-bam
he said: "By other roads and other ferries
When tears come down
Empedocles, Heraclitus, and Zeno;
Won't it be so bright and fair
the ancient prow goes on its way, and cuts
I'm a number not a name
as doth a bird to its recalling lure.
Alone and forsaken by fate and by man
who saw my Leader coming back, the sooner
I have no mother, nor even a dad"
to sadden them no more, I calmed myself;
Just one thing more than water.... cool, clear water.
But none the less his language gave me fear,
I guess I was too young to know
he said, "there, where the sticky pitch is boiling,
I'll just set back and watch you, while you shed those bitter tears.
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is wont at times to be unsound in summer.
Today the tempest rolls high
"Be not displeased to tell us, an ye may,
Be as fair to my heart as you can be
which closes in the sandy plain with stone.
I've been a fool about you, for way too long
because they 've gone with us in our direction."
On his lips, there was a prayer
and hurled it to some distance from the edge
There's comin' a day when the world shall melt away
even so my mind, which still was fleeing on,
A picture from the past came slowly stealing
Then all cried out: "Let Malacoda go!"
I thought I was right but I must of been wrong
which next appeared before me, of a Lion,
As I helped him cross the highway
of infants and of women and of men.
Other arms will hold you tight
Bowstring ne'er shot an arrow from itself,
A tongue can accuse and carry bad news
as he took fire, and, burning up, must needs
All I do is sit and sigh, oh Lord
I, who am dead, must needs conduct him here
We both found a shelter beneath the same tree
"O friars," I began, "your evil deeds . . ."
What a happy feelin' to know He'll always care
Then he: "I Frate Alberigo am,
Not even the angels; in heaven will know
But follow me now, for I please to go;
Another love before my time made your heart sad and blue
They issued from one body; and thou canst search
You pack your rags and go back to dad
leaving behind them horrible contempt!"
And now I can see the end of my journey
but all the freer had their tongues to wail.
Cry, oh, lord.
who yonder grapples sinners with his hook!"
I could picture him while living, curly hair protruding lips,
Why is it that thine eyes still rest down there
Hoping and prayin' some day you'd be true
fly to the other bank; on both sides then
When I know you don't love me
the vestry known for its fair ornaments;
You are on my lonely mind.
By several years the writing lied to me.
Years have passed since that parting
seemed to be made of glass and not of water.
We'll show the folks a brand new dance that never has been done
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and ope mine eyes!" And yet I oped them not,
And Rose, my Rose of San Antone
imprisoned spirit, may it please thee still
down behind the trees and the moon is slowly rising
injustice is the end, and each such end
Death's angels took her away
"O my dear Leader, who hast made me safe
There's nothin' as sweet as my baby
and said: "Though I of motion be deprived,
The congregation's waitin' for the preacher
and wished to ask thee: "˜Who is in the flame
THE RICH MAN LIKE ALL, WILL BE JUDGED AT THAT TIME,
to look at me, than at the other foul ones?"
Just mind your own business
Thereat his pride received so great a fall,
Thank God for ev'ry flower and each tree
from Monte Veso takes a separate course
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ YOU SWAT AN LOOSE THE RING
"The banners of the King of Hell advance
He's repeating these words he was told.
thou couldst have seen there, whom the servants' Servant
If you only loved me half as much as I love you
On coming up to us, they watched me long
Go get you some treatments just like I've had and you won't hanker for more
the rabbit which he seizes with his teeth."
Go on an break, you Crazy Heart
this man upon his back, for he is not
A jug of wine to numb my mind
As, when a fog is thinning off, one's gaze
Ev'rybody's dreamin' about somebody else
as if to say: "I 'd have thee speak no more;"
Bouncy-bouncy, (Rootie Tootie)
smote him, and said to him: "Pandar, begone!
Rome-ian num'rals they're a pain,
And I said: "Teacher, I 'd be greatly pleased
They nailed his hands there on the cross
forbidden by reverence for the Keys supreme
I'm waitin' for a woman - That ain't got no man.
we came to where the boatman cried aloud
There's a poor old mother at home
denying that He is, by blasphemy,
And all we got left is one old Billy goat
And then, addressing me, they said: "O Tuscan,
But I don't take no one's advice
out of the ice from midway up his breast;
'Cause I know you'll break my heart.
our feet proceeded not without our hands.
And i know there's some one waitin', with the sweetest how you are,
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into an open place so luminous
Dear Brother, Mama left us this morning
for see, thou now art neither two nor one."
Now I know I'll never find another sweetheart
all living things on earth; and I alone
'Cause I ain't got nothin' but time
excepting one, which rose and sat upright,
'Cause My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
before him, it confesses itself wholly;
But you think that you're above me
those whom the wind drives, those the rain beats down,
It shines to light the fires of home
in water partly, partly on the land;
As i wander thru life alone.
The rainfall causes them to howl like dogs;
Jesus is calling, calling night and day
beneath the veil of my mysterious lines!
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you...
in water partly, partly on the land;
And live with Christ ever more.
Out of the mouth of each a sinner's feet
Baby, rock, let's rock on down the line
the dispositions three which Heaven rejects,
Thank God for givin' life to you and me
that they, unless foreseeing be in vain
You never would admit you were mis-tak-en
both looking at and listening to the sick,
Darlin', if our pathways part, let there be no broken hearts
and when the sixth embankment had been reached,
You wouldn't stay away half as much as you do
to see if any yonder air themselves;
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
make you afraid to show yourselves to me."
The nights are cool and I'm a fool.
one inch, I 'd be already on the road,
I was there with my Saviour free from grief and strife
they seemed the wails of wretched, tortured men.
We were just victims of a half-hearted love
I 'm not Aeneas, nor yet Paul am I;
It's the California Zephyr, the Union Pacific Queen
beyond the center where I seized the hair
But she went to heaven, just one year ago
thy citizens, whence shame accrues to me,
He can eat an apple pie and never even bat an eye
it seemed to me, that I had seen none such.
I couldn't stand to see you wed another
shed tears, and in their looks appeared subdued
Some folks might sa-ay that I'm no good
Canto XCIII
Here Ciriatto, from whose mouth protruded,
There's no room in my heart for the blues
the world to Chaos hath been oft reduced;
You know, we finally call him the "Old Man"
and all that was there once, could not avail
No-bod-o-dy lonesome for me.
even as a snail doth with its horns; his tongue,
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.
caused us to turn our eyes up toward its tip,
And live with Christ ever more.
And he to me: "This wretched kind of life
I'm Sorry For You, My Friend.
the ridge abandoned, be the bank a screen,
HIT EVERYTHING EXCEPT THAT FLY
the brides of righteousness, rapaciously
For His sufferin' on that day
this led mine eyes, as counter to its path
And live with Christ ever more.
on one side and the other, with great howls
You promised darlin' that we'd never part
is cracking," said the Greek, "and that foul water,
Now Mary was just a plain mother
"from all directions they returned both times;
Just like a blind man I wandered along
he said: "By other roads and other ferries
I've never seen a night so long
Whereat the spirit writhed with both his feet;
When the lights all grow dim
said I within myself, "to this strange signal,
My sister married a brakeman and it ain't no joke,
which slightly slopes. My Leader then, and I,
BUT THE DEBT CAN'T BE PAID, WITH SILVER AND GOLD,
Guido Bonatti see; and see Asdente,
Each night I laid there in prison
by means of wasps and hornets that were there.
But now your conscience bothers you
that they, unless foreseeing be in vain
Still hears my broken song of love
who both himself and what he owned destroyed.
Well I'm in love I'm in love with a beautiful gal
and fit to cover him and me. Renewed
I'm Free At Last from love and all its' worries
and those whose bones are still heaped up together
Won't you sometimes think of me
of fallen rocks, which often 'neath my feet
I'll have a new body
from thence another trench was shown to me.
If your heart's not good and true
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takes from the very place in which I sinned
To lay all his money down.
I verily believe it pleased my Leader,
When I'd crawl back if I could
Rhea selected it, and when he wept,
Met my future wife today
he 'll then so act, that 'gainst Focara's wind
And that's all she wrote, Dear John,
Their youthful age had made, thou modern Thebes,
Well, why don't you be just like you used to be
and 'gainst a man who storeth up no trust.
I've sent your saddle home.
I heard a horn give forth so loud a sound,
And while the organ plays I love you truly
"Come here, that I may take thee up;" and then
FOR WHEN GOD CALLS, FROM HIS HOME UP ON HIGH,
until September, all diseases came
So she could never answer "YES" or "NO".
Justice Divine is over here tormenting
So, Why Don't You Love Me like you used to do.
I found one such of you, that, for his deeds,
I like candy, I like cake, I like jam but goodness sake
Meantime my Leader on his way was going,
We've known so much of happiness we've had our cup of joy
spoilers of property and highway robbers.
(Oh you) know that I've come back and we've tried it o'er
returning out again, recovers hope,
On her little face was a look of despair,
When he had thus completed his discourse,
And in my dreams you'll still belong to me
No further in it did we read that day."
Skies above are dark and stormy
of lawful love, became her father's mistress.
A memory from your lonesome past keeps us so far apart
of riches that are put in Fortune's care,
He has give us many comforts, he's got the right to take away
before I speak of it. But if my words
Ready to live in Paradise
whose means are small for taking in so much.
In a little country village
down here by magic of that wild Erí¬chtho,
Rootie Tootie, (Rootie Tootie)
thou say'st the other of this rain is made."
He spreads the burnin' sand with water.
But tell me: at the time of tender sighs,
WHEN SOMETHIN BIGHTS YOU ON THE NOSE...FLY TROUBLE
and lead thee hence through an eternal place,
Your daddy's mad; He's done got pee-eeved
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nor will, I think, for all eternity.
Or stood and watched with helpless hands while the heart inside you dies
"Though I get angry, be not thou dismayed,"
Ev'rybody's longin' for somebody else
was going with the gentle Poet's leave;
Lord I don't know what I'll do
And like a dog that, barking, yearns for food,
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ GOES THAT BUSY LITTLE FLY
So eager for the voyage did I make
I know it filled her heart with pain
that even the air seemed terrified thereby "
Whom God has called back to the fold
to Chiron yonder, when we reach his side;
Now when you get to thinkin' you're really smart
Down on the whole great waste of sand there rained
Of a family I once knew.
So gilded outside are they that they dazzle;
Traveling through this world alone
We 've reached the place where, as I said to thee,
When you need a friend to go with you all the way
The trunk: "With sweet words thou dost so entice me,
'N' the gambler's still waitin' for that Ace in the hole
while yet, as now it is, the wind is hushed.
My broken heart cries out for you
but one of our black Cherubs said to him:
As I sit here alone in my cabin
so may thy name maintain itself on earth."
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain.
how I can Palestrina overthrow.
They sang like they meant it, they all clapped their hands
which overcame a hemisphere of gloom.
In spring I'll wait for roses red when fades the lilacs bloom
they 're doing at the wretches who are boiled."
NOW YOU PICK A PERFECT NIGHT IN JUNE
Wisdom Supreme, how great the art thou showest
All the sunshine, all is gone
while, equally, the white part dies away.
When you know I love you so
Therefore keep still, for thou art rightly punished;
Then you'll be judged; by the deeds you have done
that outside undergo their punishment,
Let Jesus lead you home
when of such wickedness the nest was made!"
My wife began her hissin', cut down on her kissin',
and with such injury and scoff, indeed,
SO SELFISH ARE WE, FOR SILVER AND GOLD,
to seek their profit and avoid their loss,
Cause her daddy had gone far away,
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"must such great wickedness be left behind."
But that was before
he threw it down into the greedy throats.
All because I loved no one but you.
then Florence changes folk and government.
Won't it be so bright and fair
before him, it confesses itself wholly;
That showed thru the darkest of nights.
the three, who this as answer understood,
She's long gone, and now I'm lonesome blue
he said unto his mates: "Are ye aware
I'm gonna keep drinkin'
between the well and that hard, high wall's base,
Before it steals their fate
as did my Teacher o'er that selvage-bank,
There is no end, I can't pretend
their burden and the narrow path delayed them.
'cause it looks like rain
fell dead, and when the ancient race of people,
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
But who art thou, that musest on the crag,
Shame, oh shame - for what you're doin'
upon the back of that fierce animal,
And with hope all gone they walk alone these men with broken hearts
Thereat I seized him by the nape, and said:
darlin I could never be ashamed of you.
as I believe, was why he went away
All you want to do is sit around and pout
the beaver seats himself to wage his war;
He smiled as we parted, cause he didn't know
Then, having talked among themselves awhile,
My honey coated sweetie pie
a servant strong when in a good lord's presence.
I mean I ain't gonna love you anymore,
Already had I fixed mine eyes on his;
I've got an old flame in my heart
to gaze in wonder with the others there,
For someday you'll find yourself alone.
that I have risen too late to give him help.
Heaven holds all my treasures
hooking his pitch-smeared tresses, pulled him up,
All his treasures of diamonds and gold
And he, who understood my covert speech,
We don't get nearer or further or closer
Both against God, one's neighbor, and one 's self
You're just in time to miss the boat
of each were ready to exchange their matter.
It's the California Zephyr, the Union Pacific Queen
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from every country come together here;
While my precious darling's sleeping
could not attain the bottom for the dark;
BUT YOU HAVE TREATED ME SO BAD,
our eyes intent on those that swallow mud;
Worries and fears I claimed for my own
Soon after this I saw the muddy people
You've grown cold and no longer care for me
sails of the sea I never saw so large.
That I was glad the day you set me free
recall him not untimely to itself."
HOW CAN YOU TURN AWAY FROM HIS SIDE,
whither the Po descends to be at peace
I hate to think it's all over
And he to us: "O spirits that have come
There's soda pop and the dancing's free
To sexual vice so wholly was she given,
even though you proved to be untrue
for though I 'm thirsty, and humor stuffs me out,
I said "I'll go down, take a look at the crowd
or that no hair remain upon thee here!"
In my dreams you still belong to me
And just such sticky pitch as that which boils
You done kicked me till I feel like a used football
was he, for whom, Gavillí«, thou dost weep.
You've got stars in your eyes but they can't hide the lies
He stopped attentive like a man who listens;
'Cause I'm satisfied with you.
talking a little of the future life;
Thank God for ev'ry flower and each tree
that to the following trench we can descend,
We've known so much of happiness we've had our cup of joy
at which in this world litanies advance.
When the road is rocky and you're carrying the load wait for the light to shine
through a disloyal tyrant's treachery.
I stood around a month or two
within the heaven that hath the smallest circles,
I'm like a weepin-willow, while we're apart
Tisí¬phoní«'s between." Thereat he ceased.
She'll do me, she'll do you
"˜why I am not afraid to enter here.
When things go wrong, you go your way
And he to me: "That is the ancient soul
At the break day
and all the others whom thou seest here
When you left I hung my head down and I cried
if in the lovely life I judged aright;
'Cause there ain't a hound dog in this state that can hold a light to me
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imprisoned spirit, may it please thee still
HOW CAN YOU REFUSE JESUS NOW.
From rock to rock they course into this vale;
And I was livin'g high until that fatal day
who from his throat now had his tongue cut out,
The simplicity and shrewdness in his Ethiopian face, showed the wisdom and ignorance of a crushed, undying race.
I then began: "Your state impressed within me
And my heart fell at your feet
and tears, which find a barrier in their eyes,
And the love light no longer shines
which were: "Now see my baneful punishment,
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
for who repents not cannot be absolved,
She's long gone, and now I'm lonesome blue
out to their feeding drives his tender sheep.
I tried to but I couldn't wait
is bathed by waters which therein find rest.
HOW CAN YOU REFUSE HIM NOW, HOW CAN YOU REFUSE HIM NOW,
a curry-comb plied by a boy, for whom
What a happy feelin' to know He'll always care
but said, in opposition to the rest:
I'm so lonesome I could cry
"I pray thee, Teacher, much, and pray again
Each eye looked toward the west
Than this hour five hours later yesterday,
And drag you right down in disgrace
as not to close mine eyes with his as well.
When your heart's not good and true
or doth thy mind intently gaze elsewhere?
Life can be sad when you're livin' all alone
that at his feet he dropped his grappling hook,
My wife began her hissin', cut down on her kissin',
and who, on getting up again, looks round
I'd rather be in a deep, dark grave
who, when he held in hand his master's foes,
And all of the things they will buy
He, in whose footprints thou dost see me tread,
Just mind your own business
the first ring, hence, torments in separate troops
You don't care whose life you ruin
and said: "Here under cover must thou dance,
I like candy, I like cake, I like jam but goodness sakes
"Even as thou seest that the boiling stream
Last night I dreamed of heaven the land of eternal life
Thereat my Leader asked him who he was,
We're gonna have a new baby about the first of May
And thereupon, if I became perplexed,
And say sweet nothin's like you used to coo
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of Angels who did not rebel, nor yet
A garden's blooming there for me
And just such sticky pitch as that which boils
Let's pretend that time has stopped and I didn't go away
may I needs reach the bottom of the ice!"
I've grown so used to you somehow
and this man here Ruggieri, the Archbishop;
And no matter how much you boast and brag you can still learn a thing or two
be all revolved. Into a well like this
Lord I take a cost, oh the lost highway
A heavy thunder-clap broke the deep sleep
No matter how I struggle and strive
recall him not untimely to itself."
'Cause I know you'll be untrue.
On coming up to us, they watched me long
A sobbing tear that follows parting
but Virgil said: "At what art gazing still?
Where the cotton grows and the suwanee flows,
whether some other one were with me there;
I'll tell then I found true love with another
who on Apulia's fortune-ravaged soil
When the lights all grow dim
so yearning a desire possesses thee,
And think of my darlin'
so that an otter he appeared to me.
I said "I'll go down, take a look at the crowd
We thus passed through with slowly moving steps
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ
let him assist my memory, which still
Then there'll be no teardrops tonight.
and those on fire inflamed Augustus so,
On her little face was a look of despair,
who stops and begs at once from where he is;
There remains the Glory Fountain
encircle castles for the walls' protection,
When she passes that Nashville tower you can hear that whistle whine
which afterward the sinful women share,
We'll let bygones be forgotten souvenirs
when people in the great round trench I saw
We fight and we fuss like a dog and a cat
"We, both of us, whom thou beholdest here
Lord, I've been waitin' too long
I gave myself to groping over each,
May you never be alone like me.
his nose cut off as far as 'neath his brows,
Now open your eyes and count with me
These words of gloomy color I beheld
Just like you used to be
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And hereupon a voice was heard by me:
(But) each time my dear it was worse than before
and, in their looks, of great authority;
Goodbye Joe me gotta go me oh my oh
Water ne'er moved as swiftly through a sluice,
When time goes crawling by
said: "How am I to come, if thou take fright,
But it gives you misery
as far as to his loins, he 's made of brass;
You never shut your mouth until I blow my top
I 'm placed thus low, because 't was I who robbed
Where the soul........never dies
of conscious purity, emboldens man.
You leave me here, to pay and pay
to where his breast had been, he turned his tail,
And now we sit together - on the running board.
and tore it, that he carried off a piece.
Ain't had no lovin' like a huggin' and a kissin'
an agí¨d man, all white with ancient hair,
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
of whom I knew both Hector and Aeneas,
Now she don't get my rockin' chair
down to the plain, the rock is shattered so,
Why don't you act a little older
that to the Poet I drew close in dread.
Yipsy-doodle, (Rootie Tootie)
from Circe, who concealed me near Gaeta
Move over old dog cause a new dog's moving in
and down I fell like one whom sleep o'ertakes.
I've got new fish to fry
of such a nature were the flames that moved
Long is the road that leads you
said I, "who, buried in those arc-like tombs,
You've hurt me but no one will ever know
and if thou weepest not, at what art wont
The life-termer's waitin' for a prison break
by reason of a vague sound issuing thence.
When you've strayed from the fold
He then returned along the filthy road,
Leave the best friend, I ever had.
who nearer than the rest are at his side;
And she thinks I'm "purty", too
only the bond of love which Nature makes;
And ever since she tore 'em down
who shouted: "Woe to you, ye souls depraved!
Ohio and Kentucky Tennessee and Alabam, the delta state of
that death so great a number had undone.
I'LL TELL YOU WHAT IT IS BUT IT AIN'T GOOD NEWS,
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But lightly at the bottom, which devours
I've been a fool about you, but I'm gonna get gone
when still corruptible, the immortal world,
And he said, "Now don't be weepin' for this pretty bit of clay,
All of a sudden issued forth these words
And he let you keep and love it til your hearts were bigger grown
and I still gazing at its lofty wall,
All my faith in you is gone but the heartaches linger on
thou 'lt see the sad folk who have lost the Good
Higgama, jiggama, horney cuff,
who are these people that such honor have,
She was somebody's darling and pride
When Juno, on account of Semele,
My number's in the book
a curry-comb plied by a boy, for whom
Lord you better keep it on your mind
by demon force, which pulls him to the ground,
And I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Livin'.
my mother gave me, my performances
Like falling rain
an evil course!" than mine was, when I saw
'N' the hitch-hiker's waitin' for a ride
thou shouldst not thus have crucified his sons.
Sinner man won't you stop now and pray
that from the ocean's floor it never rose.
In this wicked ole world today
"The pinioned man thou gazest at, advised
I'll never see that gal of mine
on one side, and deprived of it the other,
Tonight we pray for water.... cool, clear water
so from the band where Dido is they issued,
I'm on my way to that fair land
and makes wild animals and shepherds flee.
"That girl down the street should be run from our midst
We entered it without the least contention;
You made your world out of vows that are broken
whose tail and head were thrust between their loins,
The chimney fell down - just yesterday
protruded, and, as far as to the calf,
Go tell your troubles to the moon
thou hadst in keeping in the joyful life,
There's no room in my life for a sigh
which my unerring memory will relate.
When you know I love you so
whirled him around, and dashed him 'gainst a rock;
Towards the center of your heart I'll be bound
as doth a boar, when from the sty let out.
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ GOES THAT BUSY LITTLE THING
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but just a natural passage under ground,
It's the California Zephyr, the Union Pacific Queen
And she who, yonder, with dishevelled locks
I Told A Lie To My Heart.
"O piteous she who hastened to my help,
oh! lordy! guess I'm never gonna lose,
and courteous thou, that didst at once obey
In our Savior's blessed words He said on earth, He prophesised,
o'er which the sea availeth not to boast?
Take my advice or you'll curse the day
hence he moved first, and shouted: "Thou art caught!"
My Love for You Has turned to hate
Then each and all of them drew on together,
He shed his lifes blood for you and for me
But thou, to such sore trouble why return?
I'll even make believe I never loved you
cause me to weep with grief and sympathy.
'cause I won't be back no more,
the two entwining serpents with his rod,
I'm gettin' sick and tired of the same ole bull
His head is formed of finest gold, his arms
but his shore 'nough father wanted him in the big house up above.
seated amid a philosophic group.
The kisses we steal we know are not real
Red eyes he hath, a dark and greasy beard,
Well then she started naggin',
And he to me: "These things will be made clear
You've got stars in your eyes but they can't hide the lies
no help; their nails kept scraping down their scabs,
I WENT TO THE RIVER, BUT THE WATER'S TOO COLD,
and all the rest that sea bathes round about.
Jesus is calling, calling night and day
was courteous, considering the great result
When the Pale Horse and his rider goes by?
while ev'n through Hell thy name is spread abroad!
Cause it just don't matter now
But she is blest, and gives no heed to that;
The durn rabbits - they got the turnip greens
since I was not obedient to His law,
For someday you'll find that I'm not there.
Ere now have I seen cavalry break camp,
Some don't seem to care
for afterward we heeded them alone.
You're just in time to miss the boat
Thereafter to the left he turned his feet;
I'm satisfied with you.
seized me so strongly for his love of me,
All I do is sit and cry
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and I behind him moving, as I made
We opened up the underworld to the ones we loved so well
to stone!" they all cried out, as down they looked;
I've traveled it long enough;
"˜Why, Beatrice,' she said, "˜true Praise of God,
Then one day something happened
he looks behind, and backward goes his way.
But nobody thinks about me
who, smoking like wet hands in winter-time,
There's no room in my heart for the blues
who, smoking like wet hands in winter-time,
There wasn't nothin' I could do
the uproar of a dread-inspiring sound,
WHEN SOMETHIN BIGHTS YOU ON THE NOSE...FLY TROUBLE
Hence, that my Leader might give heed, I placed
The Devil's Train is long and black
by every one to do away with Florence,
It'll be fought at Armageddon, it shall be a sad, sad day.
dost thou stand there already, Boniface?
YOU ROLL THE PAPER UP NICE AND TIGHT
and, all alone, I saw the Saladin.
Why Don't You Love Me like you used to do.
till at Goví¨rnolo it joins the Po.
My hair's still curly and my eyes are still blue
Democritus, who thinks the world chance-born,
But don't trust any woman you meet
of Menalippus out of spite, than this one
Then bows his head that his shame he might hide
and has on that side all her hairy skin,
Well, Why Don't You Love Me like you used to do
These words of gloomy color I beheld
AND SETTLE DOWN TO SWEEP YA FLOORS
"O thou that by thy guilt art not condemned,
The blues come around when the sun goes down
"Look at that great man there, who, as he comes,
Won't you come over in mine
that death so great a number had undone.
The hogs took the cholera and they've all done died
but when I turned, thou then didst pass the point
So I can get me somethin' to eat
were painted o'er with snares and wheel-like shields.
And now I ain't gonna love you anymore.
Amphiarí us? Why quittest thou the war?'
I rocked from here and there
as I have, on his belly o'er this path."
There just ain't nobody knows what I go through
begins, and all the cruel trenches spans,
you are on my lonely mind.
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Then he to me: "Thou thinkest thou art still
But you never give your heart
converse with me and satisfy my wishes.
A little fellow about my size got tired of being pushed about
and then I 'll join again my company,
That last long day she said goodbye
which breaks against the one it runs to meet,
And no matter how much you boast and brag you can still learn a thing or two
as doth a knife the scales of bream, or fish
Won't you come back again and break mine
in wrath, he took the pointed thunderbolt,
I'll have a new body
I thus beheld the seventh balast change
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and filé gumbo
nourish and comfort thou thy weary soul,
Thank God for givin' life to you and me
when of such wickedness the nest was made!"
I'm sorry for - your victim now
From the four previous strips two arms were made;
My fishin' pole's broke the creek is full of sand
"Hold fast to me, for by such stairs as these"
All his treasures of diamonds and gold
who lets his feelings judge Divine Decrees?
And I'll catch all the fish in the bayou
and still more will there be, until the Hound
To a land of groans and pain
One of the wretches of the icy crust
They would change their way of livin'
with greater haste I therefore begged the spirit
My fishin' pole's broke the creek is full of sand
both old and recent, by the flames burnt in!
Yes I knew the day I lost you
when up at last, that I could go no further;
Too many tears thru it all
and round already was the moon last night;
The Angel of Death
The little brooks which toward the Arno run
The birds in the morning don't sing anymore
than this disease, which strips my face of flesh.
Boys it's a lot easier on the head and eyes I've been down that road before
One here swims otherwise than in the Serchio!
The preacher's comin' Sunday - to spend the day
who gave thee death when in the world above?
I could tell the world you're doin' wrong
for great desire constraineth me to learn
You'll never know how much it hurts to see you sit and cry
I thereupon arose, and showed myself
I'll tell them we grew tired of each other
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who 'neath the rocks that form Mount Aventine
I have no place on this earth to call home
Two paws it had, all hairy to the arm-pits;
Praying for sight
But since I should have burned and baked myself,
Take these chains from my heart and set me free
and afterward he needs must strike again
Roly Poly eats a hard day dinner it takes lots of strenght to run and play
and landed on the bank its head and chest;
WITH TEARS IN HIS EYES, ON THE CROSS THERE HE DIED,
was stretched at length the Infamy of Crete,
The canned stuff's spoiled - else the jar's got broke
lest it should run when virtue guides it not;
It's hard to know you don't want me
to flee from him, what is on this side seen
Would you lend a helping hand
and as the Paduans make along the Brenta,
And all night long I've cried
to that town which I have well stocked therewith;
We opened up the underworld to the ones we loved so well
further than its own sin allotted it."
Kinfolk come to see Yvonne by the dozen
upon the sand a little further on,
The roses have faded, there's frost at my door
is with me here, who fain would fasting be,
Fall down on your knees and pray
necessity compels her to be swift;
I have no mother, nor even a dad"
in goading beasts or, much less, human limbs,
'N' the hitch-hiker's waitin' for a ride
that for its sake I lost both sleep and strength.
You holler good and loud put him in the calaboose
whence I: "Their meaning, Teacher, troubles me."
A lady of the evening and you know the penalty
Here Alichí¬n could not control himself,
A sound that made my blood chill
Therefore go on; I 'll follow at thy skirts,
Well lord I thought I would cry
and wiped it on the hair of that same head,
I'll believe that you still love me
are similar to those thou leavest now.
Are you walkin, (are you walkin)
the second Frederick and the Cardinal
Lead you to that promise land
wherein the boiled were crying out aloud.
Your dad-ad-dy is lon-one-some and all I do is moan
devoid of war within her tyrants' hearts;
Faded love and winter roses sprinkled with a lonely tear
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which 'neath the rain's tormenting punishment
Oh! Lord I see his burdens are greater than mine.
when we a band of spirits met, who came
Lord I love to hear her when she calls me sweet da-a-addy
But so that thou mayst know who backs thee thus
And once she told me when you're grown to women and to men
With him go those that in this way deceive;
And watch the fellars in this town
to seek their profit and avoid their loss,
You've known so long that you were wrong
God hates it most; therefore the fraudulent
You should have known you'd be alone
in time to see the unbecoming havoc,
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
to evil will equipped with power to act,
No more pain worry sorrow
as on a rock of that hard crag I leaned,
Such love as Jesus did impart
If all the people should again assemble,
That I will never know contentment
thereof I 'd have thee hear me speak a little.
Forever, so long I've been yearnin'
all naked, and with anger in their looks.
And then there was a silence
Thou art my teacher and authority;
The cashier said with a grin,
and for Medea, too, is vengeance wrought.
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
nor turned aside for that the impious eyes,
"When they get down to pray, I'll just get up and leave
There lies Romena, where I falsified
And my heart is so sore,
for Branca d' Oria is not dead as yet,
If you go to the city then you will find me there
well do I know the road; so be at rest!
We're gonna have a new baby about the first of May
Somewhat away from it we were as yet,
I had lot's of luck but it's all been bad
"No other answer give I thee," he said,
Hang the scenes that're painted from life
Then "Oh," said I to him, "so may the other
I know I couldn't love you as before.
From him we had departed now, when two
The fire fell from Heaven, I fell to the floor
which proved a seed of evil for the Jews."
I must learn to live without you
and to a place I come, where naught gives light.
Long about Monday she was nowhere about
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my heart, before the tears freeze up again."
And tho I've lost you to another
So wholly wast thou then intent on him
Lord you better keep it on your mind
and I would have thee know that, earlier
That told that she's just been waitin' to know that we were alright
Without another word he fled away;
Love is satisfied to either win or lose
And to the world should one of you return,
You wouldn't stay away half as much as you do
I found my Leader, who had climbed already
All alone without a friend
I 'd have thee swallow now my thought of her.
Tootsie-wootsie, (Rootie Tootie)
because the Providence on high, which willed
No more pain worry sorrow
all hope abandon, ye that enter here!
We don't get nearer or further or closer
the vestry known for its fair ornaments;
You'll remember darling what I told you
that weeps; nay, this place is so full of us,
So why should we try anymore
both words and blood; I therefore dropped the end,
And I'll be left here all a- lone.
whereon I kept mine eyes so steadily,
I'll be your darlin'
When I had heard those sorely troubled souls,
I'm traveling in the light
and had I not so prematurely died,
I never thought in this old world a fool could fall so hard
And he: "I crave the contrary; away
Roly Poly daddy's little fatty and he's gonna be a man someday
for other shelter was there none. I now "
When you'll need someone who will care
down here by magic of that wild Erí¬chtho,
On the dixie cannon-ball
Not yet had Nessus reached the other side,
I'm taking everything except my ball and chain
and two in one they were, and one in two;
When the time rolls around for me to lay down and die
within the court of Heaven, and my words, too,
I told my heart I didn't love you
the body of a serpent all the rest.
And some mother rocked him, her darlin to sleep
nor shields himself when smitten by the fire.
Now I got rockin' chair money
however the disgusting tale be told.
Then Jesus came like a stranger in the night
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With him go those that in this way deceive;
Ev'rybody's dreamin' about somebody else
which crosses from the fourth bank to the fifth.
A jug of wine to numb my mind
he had me burned by one, who treated him
So this world would not be lost
the first ring, hence, torments in separate troops
Yet, he smiled in understandin'
and prow go down, even as Another pleased,
And as I wonder where you are
which said: "Pope Anastasius I contain,
With tears in my eyes, dear, I begged you to stay
when I beheld three faces to his head!
Darling, someday when your memories wander
so, looking down from hence, I make out nothing."
You wouldn't stay away half as much as you do
Than this hour five hours later yesterday,
Each night I laid there in prison
When we were where it hollows out below,
When your heart's not good and true
we left the wall, and toward the middle went
Can't you hear the Blessed Saviour Callin' You?
Through them am I in such a family,
If you'll be a baby to me
because it had a fen on every side.
I told my heart I didn't love you
and 'neath my feet, a lake which, being frozen,
If you're lovin' me like i'm lovin' you
as that which I beheld in two death-pale
Move over short dog cause a tall dog's moving in
the gloomy air so cruelly chastises?"
I feel like a honey bee, when she's buzzing round with me
who lets his feelings judge Divine Decrees?
Fall down on your knees and pray
my heart, that dear and kind paternal face
Well, Why Don't You Love Me like you used to do
He stopped attentive like a man who listens;
oh! lordy! guess I'm never gonna lose,
who toward the Castle all on one side face,
I know that I would never be this blue
but moved to anger seemed the one who spoke.
I said I wouldn't tell it to a living soul
we ever reached the lofty tower's foot,
All day I've faced the barren waste
better equipped with breath than I had felt,
Lord I don't know what I'll do
save that at this one it is broken down,
I built a dream world darlin' for two
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for all these here are subject, for like fault,
Maybe you've been cheated in the past,
as they then disappeared; my Teacher, therefore,
Then the gods would deny you on the great judgement day.
were situated so, that its lay-brethren
There he was lying but he felt no pain
come here, crowned with the sign of victory.
Just how many homes are broken tonight
of that disgusting and dishevelled wench,
For His sufferin' on that day
but I was yonder, where assent was given
You have no right to be the judge to criticize and condemn
as they then disappeared; my Teacher, therefore,
Oh I hear the train a-comin',
Whilom as trusty cradle for her son
A car speeded by and the screamin' of brakes
and seized the hair as one would who ascends;
Roly Poly scrambled eggs for breakfast bread and jelly twenty times a day
And he: "If I were made of leaded glass,
The maiden wore her beads and braids and hoped someday he'd talk
the Highest Leader shines upon us still.
God help her she leaps, oh there's no one to weep
I do not think it were a sadder sight
I can't escape from you.
the first time I was grieved on thy account.
He always wore his Sunday feathers and held a tomahawk
the peasant, lacking provender, gets up,
I was ridin' number nine
that I can not keep still; be not annoyed,
A trusting heart had just been broken
whence all my guilt I bring, pray tell me whether
But last night I heard you crying in your sleep
past all resistance by the minds of men;
I picked her up in a pickup truck
and, thus robed, sorrowing go my way."
After you're gone, when mem'ries come to haunt me
even so went that one down across the sand.
Death's angels took her away
"These devils have been scorned on our account,
On the dixie cannonball, on the dixie cannonball,
and thinking to avoid disdain by death,
Lord what am I comin' to
for one of their own company they made me,
If we sin somehow we pay
" against me this one seemed to be advancing
I like candy, I like cake, I like jam but goodness sake
As in a circle, round that road we went,
A THOUSAND TIMES MY POOR SOUL DIED,
Canto CX
And one of them, who had his small white pouch
Super-duper (Rootie Tootie)
and overhead the brook's mist shades them so,
For it's written that the greatest men never get too big to cry
but when his doubt had wholly spent itself,
Did you ever see a robin weep
and some were seated cuddled up together,
His heart was set on the Indian maiden with the coal black hair
which 'neath the rain's tormenting punishment
With tears in my eyes, dear, I begged you to stay
"Ye that are pressing thus your breasts together,
But she don't care about me
and after we had come to it, I saw,
What pain He suffered there
I tell no more, nor further answer thee."
Because to us, that's just what he is
That is the lowest and the darkest place,
I said "I'll go down, take a look at the crowd
still sports for this a hairless chin and neck."
But you never give your heart
They kept blaspheming God, and their own parents,
It's hard to believe that it's true.
informed thereby of what had happened, said:
I'm sorry for - your victim now
Neptune ne'er saw so great a crime committed
When I agree with you baby it makes you mad and when I don't it makes you sad
the spirits so, that they would fain be deaf.
It's a sin to make me cry
and the other one, who thought himself too slow,
Now I went down to the bank this morning,
to know of him, before the others rend him."
Move over little dog cause a big dog's movin in
turned round at once, and said to him: "Keep still,
I'll soon get my big check, baby
what spirits these are whom thou seest here?
So heavy is my load
because Justice Divine so spurs them on,
Dreams that will never come true
and three of them detached them from the troop,
When I said I do, she must have read my thinkin',
severed from its foundation in this trunk;
Still I know I claim you for my own
Passing that way, the cruel virgin saw
Somebody's changed so let me give you a clue
Mule that I was, a beast's life, not a man's,
A slave too long to a heart of stone
even by the verses of this Comedy,
When I pass by all the people say
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are here within; I speak not of the rest."
She promised to honor, to love and obey
Ahithophel by Absalom and David,
We're getting closer to the grave each day
My Leader stopped; and I to him, who still
I was afraid to scold her, so I just gently told her,
and said: "Though I of motion be deprived,
All these blues that I've found
And I, when toward me he had stretched his arm,
The darkness is falling, the sky has turned gray
till we had reached the first place on the crag,
She is sleeping all alone
his haughty undertaking he attempted
BUT YOU HAVE TREATED ME SO BAD,
Among the thieves five such as these I found,
I wouldn't care if she come ridin' in on a broom
"Of all the other things which I have shown thee
and water.... cool, clear water.
as moved the others of the mournful herd;
But now I'll tell you about one all the southern folks have seen
still let our reputation bend thy mind
When the Angel of Death
and Diomed tormented, who in pain
So if you're ever sad and lonely
and, dreaming, wishes that he dreamt, and thus,
Moon in all your splendor knows only my heart
And he to me: "See how I think of this."
These blues have got me cryin'
And with that sad crowd yonder Priscian goes,
My mommie says daddy has brought us to shame
with thine own rage consume thyself within!
When the whistle blows, i'll be on my toes,
and 'neath my feet, a lake which, being frozen,
I'll keep it till it's covered with age
will always make her mournful with his art;
why don't you mind your own business
from the Intellect Divine, and from its Art;
I've grown so used to you somehow
is cracking," said the Greek, "and that foul water,
THEN IT'S USELESS TO YOU, IF YOU'VE STRAYED FROM THE FOLD,
To him who was in front of us the biting
Some glad day I'm going home
among the other sinners 'neath the pitch,
Didn't think you would leave me behind
that, in desire, we live deprived of hope."
'Cause there ain't a hound dog in this state that can hold a light to me
Tully and Livy, and moral Seneca;
I can't buy no beer.
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your people, though, have not well learned that art."
Oh, they'll never ever take her love from me.
a little fiery serpent seemed to me,
When the Sun was sinkin' low
thou eat; thou with this wretched flesh didst clothe us,
Won't it be so sweet, to rest at Jesus' feet
Upon the utmost verge of a high bank,
When God comes and gathers his jewels.
and how am I to blame for thy bad life?"
My mommie says daddy has brought us to shame
I reached a region silent of all light,
And took her, oh, so far away, but ol' KAW-LIGA stayed
where the two natures are together joined,
The blood is white and spouting steam
and we, accompanying its dusky waves,
There's a poor old mother at home
those townsmen who rebuilt her afterward
Each vow was a plaything that she threw away.
inscribed upon the summit of a gate;
And here's the reason why I say
began to quiver with a murmuring sound,
And then go home and pull my hair
that in the second ring thou art, and wilt be,
And from way out in the darkness, see that headlight gleam
that what he had begun he wholly leaves;
And then maybe these tears
who in the figure of a cross was stretched
I watched you as you held his hand
Morocco and the island of the Sards,
But darlin' I'll forget you, your memory will die
now falls each star that rose when I set out,
BUT ALL OF HIS WEALTH, WILL BE LEFT BEHIND.
As thus he spoke, a demon with his lash
You have to set on a sack of fetilizer to raise an "umbreller"
And he: "Ere long shalt thou be where thine eyes,
For another to be in my place.
who all wept very sorely, while on each
A song I will sing
To him who was in front of us the biting
All my life I've been a loser
Then said my Leader: "He 'll not wake again
Fall down on your knees and pray
deem themselves mocked, and think of no reply.
When I get to Glory, I'm Gonna sing, sing, sing.
"That soul up there which hath the greatest pain
So this world would not be lost
and such good daring coursed into my heart,
So - after all, ever'thing's in purty good shape."
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why are n't they punished in the red-hot town,
And if I didn't go, I believe I'd blow my stack
Here tears are shed because of heartless wrongs;
Comes down after you
that me your wretchedness doth not affect,
If I said I'm happy to be free
As yonder o'er Charybdis doth the sea,
The Devil's Train will take you
behind him as he talks. Then, having turned
But I've seen my blue skies all turn to gray
And one I saw, who like a lute were shaped,
And all night long I've cried
changed its first patron; wherefore he, for this,
That's where my sweetheart's sleepin'
till on the world another sun had dawned.
And just how many tears are shed
The Chosen Vessel went there afterward,
I often wonder if it's all a mistake;
that never doth she sate her greedy lust,
Just Waitin' to get a finger in the pie
for where the reasoning faculty is joined
These blues have got me cryin'
a nose, and thickened suitably its lips.
They sang like they meant it, they all clapped their hands
scatter in all directions through the water,
The only one I'd fool is me
Hast thou no spirit of compassion in thee?
Heaven holds all my treasures
One is in here already, if the shades,
And then I jumped in the river, but the doggone river was dry
within the court of Heaven, and my words, too,
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
azure upon a yellow pouch I saw,
Lord I wish I had never been born
"all those that perish in the wrath of God
My lips could tell a lie, but my heart would know
for to describe the bottom of the universe
In a little pine grove by the old home
thou thinkest of this landslide, which is guarded
Heading for the pearly gates for there my savior waits
call Pier da Medicina to thy mind,
Forsaken, forgotten - without any love.
Thereat she ceased to speak, and I began:
Up there I'll meet my darlin'
that on this other side its bottom sinks
Jesus died for me long ago
and who was Sí ssol Mascheroni called;
I've been a fool about you, but I'm gonna get gone
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descended hither from my blessí¨d seat,
It hurts me to know you are unhappy
And then, perhaps because of failing breath,
I knew not where the road would end
But that thou scrape more gladly from my face
We're goin' to the city - to the city fair
That other one, so thin about his flanks,
Then after she'd exploded, her meanness all unloaded,
for as I hear, but do not understand,
'Cause I just don't like this way of livin'.
and one a limb lopped off, 't would all be nothing,
For mama couldn't sleep until she kissed us all goodnight
for the great rage of itching, which hath else
Where in dreams I live with a memory
over toward me advanced his cautious step.
To the Lord be praise and glory, forever, let us pray.
my Teacher climbed again, and drew me with him;
My lips could tell a lie, but my heart would know
their burning fever makes them reek like this."
He wears up that apetite that way
Such bulwarks as, to keep the sea away,
I like candy, I like cake, I like jam but goodness sake
Then, as my gaze continued on its course,
YOU KILLED ALL THE LOVE I EVER HAD.
the one stood up, and down the other fell,
Just say God called home your Ra-amblin' Man
"˜Since thou wouldst know thereof so inwardly,
All alone without a friend
The little brooks which toward the Arno run
LORD I'D HAVE TO GET BETTER, BEFORE I COULD DIE.
I 'll carry with me to thy lasting shame."
There's a poor old mother at home
"˜Father, thou lookest so! What aileth thee?'
Then you'll moanin'; Moa-oanin' The Blues.
that these sinned not; and though they merits have,
I've grown so used to you somehow
was gnawing at the skull and other parts.
He still had the dolly, that she used to love
Why is it that thine eyes still rest down there
When your soul is lost in sin
were naked, and were sorely spurred to action
(So) never again will I knock on your door
And I, who gazed intently, saw a flag,
And I'm lo-o-onesome
I answered him: "Are you here, Ser Brunetto?"
THEN IT'S USELESS TO YOU, IF YOU'VE STRAYED FROM THE FOLD,
"I think" said I, "that thou deceivest me,
I rocked away out on the ocean
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along with them, intent on their sad plaint;
It's hard to believe that it's true.
who 'll bring with him the pocket with three beaks!"'
and look what you have loved me thru.
who nevermore shall be divided from me,
May you never be alone like me.
on this account was my reply so full.
Just remember there's a man to blame and that man might be your son
wherein boils who by violence harms others."
He spoke of his angel, a dear baby girl
and 'neath my feet, a lake which, being frozen,
KAW-LIGA - A, too stubborn to ever show a sign
and verily the she-Bear's son was I,
I heard that lonesome whistle blow
In his direction then my Sage cried out:
There remains the Glory Fountain
or e'er thou trust me to the arduous course.
What a fool I was to go and break the trust she gave
who yonder grapples sinners with his hook!"
I know you're alone with your pride dear
perhaps, have granted me a longer stay."
I loved, I lost, my story ended
Then toward him cried my Leader: "Foolish soul,
That never should have been said
is not at present, and she never was,
till I can't move a toe
of all these other ill-born spirits strike,
I returned home, but I waited too long
whence I: "Their meaning, Teacher, troubles me."
Oh Lord, please stop that terrible train
"nor to a torment is he led by guilt,
Now I got rockin' chair money
Hinder thou not his fate-ordained advance;
When God dips His love in my heart
I pocketed up there, and here myself.
You wouldn't worry me half as much as you do
Their youthful age had made, thou modern Thebes,
And trials come no more
are down below, and greater pain assails them.
Oh, where has she gone to, oh, where can she be
upon the Picene Plain; then suddenly
That last long day she said goodbye
under whose king the world of old was pure.
I just can't help lovin' you
My Leader thereupon said: "I am one
Golden hair and big blue eyes she could win a beauty prize
and one is here forbidden too long a stay."
Your daddy's mad; He's done got pee-eeved
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wholly of stone, and of an iron hue,
My land's so poor - so hard and "yeller"
as if attacked by fever or by sleep.
God only knows how it hurts me
her paramour, when he had said "˜Have I
A neighbor was passing my garden one time
Whene'er they come before the shattered rock,
As they go strollin' by
to lead the life of stupid animals,
But - we're still a-livin' and we're prayin' for better days
were for thy furious pride a fitting pain."
There's pictures of love and of passion
They issued from one body; and thou canst search
You tell him lies he don't belie-ieve
my Teacher said, "and see if thou perceive him."
Rock my cradle once again.
adulterate for silver and for gold;
So she could never answer "YES" or "NO".
If, therefore, thou dost not desire our hooks,
Oh, lord, if you hear me please hold to my hand
gnawed in it by the water's spiral course,
On His head the thorns did lay
Thereat he laid his hand upon the jaw
And she broke this heart of mine
and after it there came so long a line
Give my heart just a word of sympathy
who thus from one were fleeing, who on foot,
It seems my life is through
I, trusting him, was seized, and afterward
Just remember there's a man to blame and that man might be your son
with both its middle feet it clasped his paunch,
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you.
Downward I looked, and yet my living eyes
My fishin' pole's broke the creek is full of sand
on feeling himself taken, said to me:
That time has turned the tide
They all look up to him, all honor him;
It'll be fought at Armageddon, it shall be a sad, sad day.
as doth the hectic, who, because of thirst,
Said the little paper boy, there on the street
With six eyes he was weeping, and his tears
NO NOT NOW, (no not now), NO NOT NOW, (no not now),
like the dull, buzzing sound which bee-hives make;
My hair's still curly and my eyes are still blue
but moved to anger seemed the one who spoke.
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and filé gumbo
to flee from him, what is on this side seen
It's beautiful to see
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nor yet when wretched Icarus perceived
Where the soul.............never dies.
that toward it I 'm inclined by great desire."
You don't feel love
I thereupon arose, and showed myself
in a long, long while
ere thou shalt know how heavy that art is.
Is better than totin' a gun
"Turn back, and close thine eyes, for should the Gorgon
I'll have a new home of glory eternal
why are n't they punished in the red-hot town,
You didn't even know, the chances you were takin'
of snakes, and of so weird a kind, that still
Now I'm too busy pitchin' woo
wherefore, if aught that 's new appear to us,
Forsaken, forgotten - without any love.
among whom avarice works its mastery."
It's beautiful to see
who foully with Montagna dealt, there make,
"Out in this cold wide world all alone
"That thou hast caught me in the misery
And there'll be no quarralin'
then at the fourth it made her stern go up,
I love you dear but you are wed
so were it, then, since thus it needs must be!
Oh I gave you love and you broke my heart,
for where the reasoning faculty is joined
Go and leave me alone with these blues
We turned our backs upon the woeful vale
If you say so babe, we'll stay all night
For such defects, and for no other guilt,
I was afraid to scold her, so I just gently told her,
the thought of which already breaks my heart,
The was a time I thought you loved me
with novel hues, and generated hair
And ever since she let me down
Search at thy neck, and thou wilt find the cord
The good Lord only knows what I go through
while, calling him, his father cried: "Thou hold'st
I got the ho-on-ky tonk blues.
were not a lion's, but a fox's deeds.
Can't you hear the Blessed Saviour Callin' You?
as thou perceivest in this nether Hell."
The way to keep a woman happy
I liked; I 'm Vanni Fucci, called the Beast;
But - we're still a-livin' and we're prayin' for better days
Commingled are they with that worthless choir
When I'd crawl back if I could
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began to quiver with a murmuring sound,
Where the soul of man never dies
if he had only had his groin cut off
The way to keep a woman happy
how cruel was my death, thou now shalt hear,
Dear Brother, Mama left us this morning
the miserable spirits lead of those
If you love me half as much as I love you
were true to God, but sided with themselves.
And all I do is moan ...
and still more will there be, until the Hound
Then you'll moanin'; Moa-oanin' The Blues.
all three of them made of themselves a wheel.
'Cause My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
hath this reward. Ephialtes is his name;
Goodbye Joe me gotta go me oh my oh
nor yet when wretched Icarus perceived
You only build me up to let me down
which proved a seed of evil for the Jews."
That time has turned the tide
turned round at once, and said to him: "Keep still,
Someday you'll call my name and I won't answer
and the other one, who thought himself too slow,
I met a man and he was blind
He then turned back, and crossed the ford again.
And now we sit together - on the running board.
till over us the ocean's waves had closed."
Say Dan can't you see that big green tree,
of that wild beast with gaily mottled skin,
Tonight my heart is bowed in sorrow
and has on that side all her hairy skin,
There'll be no more strife
think for thyself now, hast thou any wit,
Praise the Lord I saw the light.
He, in whose footprints thou dost see me tread,
When my life here is o'er I'm going home
a native of that noble fatherland,
Now Jonah got along in the belly of the whale,
"So may thy spirit lead thy members long,"
I'll never get out of this world alive
and he availed himself of time and place,
And Rose, my Rose of San Antone
the memory of them freezes up my blood.
We danced to the ALABAMA WALTZ.
of strife and schism, and hence are cloven thus.
Go on and break you Crazy Heart.
is with me here, who fain would fasting be,
There wasn't nothin' I could do
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lies wholly shattered on the ground below;
Such love as Jesus did impart
scouts have I also seen upon your lands,
Came in last night about a half past ten
"Teacher," said I to him, "now tell me further:
Well, I said I would leave if you didn't change
the utterance of those true, clear words of mine.
But it can't chill my heart
the first time I was grieved on thy account.
Yes I knew the day I lost you
"this time thou criest out in vain! No longer
Then I'll stop moanin'; Moa-oanin' The Blues.
upon his hard stiff belly with his fist.
We'll show the folks a brand new dance that never has been done
thou that, though breathing, go'st to see the dead!
You leave me here, to pay and pay
thine upper portion, planted like a stake,"
You'll spend your days in sorrow
near where the marble we had traversed ended.
and I'm telling you just what my love'll do
nor for it was there need of more than fear,
Turn the pages of your Bible, in St. Matthew you will see,
opposed to that the great dry land o'ercovers,
Cry, oh, lord.
by reason of a vague sound issuing thence.
Mama's lying on her dying bed.
But when in the sweet world thou art again,
As they rippled soft and low
the heads of us two wretched, weary brothers!"
When the time comes to die
might anger him who warned me to be brief,
Darling that you went away
of this first lay, which treats of those submerged.
Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou
and bound he is, and shaped like this one, save
Met a lad while on my travels
as to the notes of storks they set their teeth.
Our story's so old again has been told
heed carefully the teaching which lies hidden
THERE'S A STORY OLD, THAT HAS OFTEN BEEN TOLD,
A clamp ne'er bound so tightly board to board;
When you're tired of breaking other hearts
Love to a death in common led us on;
(like everybody else)
well shalt thou see why from these wretches here
Sinner hear now what I say
to do whate'er is willed; so ask no more!"
When you left I hung my head down and I cried
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Eurỳpylus, and in a certain place
Don't say you care, you know that you'll be lying
believing that it wished to tell us more,
And clouds overshadow the sky
This thou shouldst know, if just come down, for he
But I got to the river so lonesome I wanted to die, oh Lord
his wife then with the other drowned herself.
But I got to the river so lonesome I wanted to die, oh Lord
that more than one tongue in the world is spoken.
I could tell my heart that I don't miss you
to place them in the fifth trench as its servants,
To find the best deal in town.
And even as he who, from the deep emerged
And Bill was just a usual dad
its measure and quality are never new.
I´ll carry you to a home on high
We turned again, as ever, to the left,
Cause I love to rock, yeah rock
Ciacco, you townsmen used to call me then;
I thought I was right but I must of been wrong
as an old tailor at his needle's eye.
And I'll be left here all a- lone.
which bellows as the sea doth in a storm,
This city life has really got me down
for she makes both my veins and pulses tremble!"
Leave the best friend, I ever had.
with gentle fall dilated flakes of fire,
So, swing wide your gate of love, open it for me
Thereat my kindly Teacher said to me:
And now I'm So Tired Of It All.
"Who has forbidden me the homes of pain?"
Just give me a ring
that thou dost beat thy wings o'er sea and land,
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
how I could ever keep my own face dry,
I went to the country - just the other day
we found the next one far more large and fierce.
What can i do, where can i go
Around our right breast, therefore, we went down,
When all dead in Christ shall rise
"I pray thee, Teacher, much, and pray again
No one will miss me, after all
break out and rush upon a poor old man,
LORD THEY'RE KILLIN' ME, I MEAN THEM LOW DOWN BLUES.
What time the hostile Podestí shall come,
And Plea-ease - don't let me love you
the brides of righteousness, rapaciously
Won't you sometimes think of me
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for calking up again the unsound ships,
Can you smile and say
Thou sayest that the sire of Silvio entered,
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
that doubt, no less than knowledge, pleases me.
And I won't be home no more.
No cask, indeed, by loss of middle-board
Well lord I thought I would cry
and beacon-signals made from fortresses,
I'm tired of doin' all the givin'
when female he became, from being male,
If I jumped in the river I would prob'ly drown
was now releasing from their weary toil
Too many boyfriends and sociable sals may drive your sweetheart away
turns round, and gazes at the dangerous water;
If you do her wrong she'll leave this tonw
of ladies and their knights of olden times,
Like a hog a rootin' up under a fence
flew out behind him, glad that one escaped,
Cause I tell you right now the hide's gettin' sca'ce
so quickly through the gloomy air! From me,
Will pine some day
and if thou weepest not, at what art wont
And you know you cause it all by telling lies
to Chiron yonder, when we reach his side;
On that resurrection morning
While peering with mine eyes down there, I saw
And my heart is so sore,
Down on the whole great waste of sand there rained
Ev'rybody's longin' for somebody else
where'er I turn, and wheresoe'er I gaze.
Just one thing more than water.... cool, clear water.
who Thebes besieged; he held, and seems to hold
Filled with selfishness and greed
"Amid the sea there lies a wasted land,"
To rock on away from here
And he to me: "Thy town, which is so full
Yes Something Got A Hold Of Me (Oh! Lord)
kept swelling up, and settling back compressed.
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie...
"O friars," I began, "your evil deeds . . ."
Just mind your own business
down here by magic of that wild Erí¬chtho,
But in their shame they're all the same these men with broken hearts
Therefore go on; I 'll follow at thy skirts,
I run around in circles
at being named so darkly, smote the speaker
The way I do
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of him, who still was looking at his wound,
Because to us, that's just what he is
hath this reward. Ephialtes is his name;
No one will ever see the tears I'm hiding
slapping away each latest burning flake.
We'll order up two bowls of chili settin' the woods on fire
Ah, how ferocious in his looks he was,
Just Waitin' to get a finger in the pie
Then "Oh!" said I, "art thou already dead?"
It seemed to us that mama heard the turnin' of the key
and he, aware, cried out: "Run to the pass!
And I'd bow my head and cry again
I, who am dead, must needs conduct him here
That we shared together in the used to be
one of his kinsmen, who with him performed
AND WHEN I ASKED HER TO LET ME IN, HERE'S ALL SHE SAID TO ME.
And like a man who ponders while he acts,
But now the future looks so dark and cold
When they approach, or are, our intellect
Or hopin' and a-waitin'for some rich uncle to die. (deleted 'and')
and though a long way thou hast gone already,
The preacher's comin' Sunday - to spend the day
by often passing his left hand before him,
The ones it hurts the most
wherein boils who by violence harms others."
To that beautiful home up there
one through his wound, the other through its mouth
YA BRACE YA SELF AN YA COURAGE GROWS
Thus with uplifted face I cried; whereat
And He gave His life completely to bring a better day
and one a limb lopped off, 't would all be nothing,
HE LIKES TO LOOK AT YU AND GLARE
Meantime my Leader on his way was going,
All she said was if you get blue,
that one perforce employed another's name,
'Cause if all these lies were true
both looking at and listening to the sick,
I heard that lonesome whistle blow
saying: "Now let thy words be frank and clear."
A moonlit path that only she would know
affect thee, where the cold locks up Cocytus.
I've had it proven to me,
even so on all sides did those sinners stay;
For someday down that lonely road you'll hear me call your name
and 'gainst a man who storeth up no trust.
God forgive me if I cry.
who previously had all the rest deceived.
We'll order up two bowls of chili settin' the woods on fire
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which bounds Italia, and her border bathes,
HE SHAKES HIS HEAD AN BATS HIS EYE
made doglike by the cold; hence frozen ponds
And I'll walk along by my Jesus' side
To manifest aright what here was new,
I'll have a new body
see'st not the death that fights him on the flood,
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
when in his stead this fellow left behind
Stood a little paper boy so hungry and cold
and said: "He yonder in God's bosom pierced
You gave the best years of your life dear
for I 'll not leave thee in the nether world."
At first when I heard of some people who claim
Down on the whole great waste of sand there rained
Way up in heaven above
went down and entered on an uncouth path.
If it had two pair of pants I would burn the coat
into eternal darkness, heat and cold.
When I can't get you off of my mind.
be this a witness undeceiving all!
But now the future looks so dark and cold
preceded me, are gathered 'neath my head,
Are away beyond the skies
I 'd speak of more; but I can come and talk
You don't feel love
Out of their eyes their woe was bursting forth;
Colorado and Nevada through the deserts burnin' door
he scorneth, since in something else he trusts.
In your loveless mansion on the hill
and, after seating me upon its edge,
And I just don't like this way of livin'.
saying: "But where can Cianfa have remained?"
The past is a flower, that withers and dies
if God be angry with them? and, if not,
There'll be no more strife
the other, Sinon, Troy's deceitful Greek;
Now baby, just come on and smile
nor, thus bent over, did he linger there,
My fishin' pole's broke the creek is full of sand
But lightly at the bottom, which devours
I'll try to repay
if that, wherewith I speak, be not dried up."
If you find you're friendless on that weary lonesome road wait for the light to shine
he talks about the frog and mouse; for "˜now'
My folks think i've gone crazy
of snakes, and of so weird a kind, that still
I rocked away out on the ocean
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to tell me who he is, before he "˜skips'!"
One you say, and ten I see
they do me honor, and therein do well."
A little girl prayed at the close of the day,
whom out of the right way Photinus drew."
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ GOES THAT BUSY LITTLE FLY
because the first ones form a solid block,
Cause last night I heard you crying in your sleep
Deidamí¬a, dead, still mourns Achilles;
Someone else's arms may hold her now in fond caress
since caring more for him than for herself,
Today as she walked arm in arm
and thus like crystal visors wholly fill
Each thing you've touched along the way will be a hallowed spot
with tiring effort and with stress of breath
I'll never get out of this world alive
and Diomed tormented, who in pain
Won't you redeem; your poor wicked soul
unless too great resemblance play me false,
You believe that a true love is blind
up to the river I abstained from speech.
She made me for my money and she made me blue
I therefore had as cause for hoping well
Though life to him had been unkind
perhaps, have granted me a longer stay."
When my baby moved out and the blues moved in
fly to the other bank; on both sides then
Where the soul of man never dies
From Val di Magra Mars draws forth a bolt
Of the martyrs that have gone
See how he makes a bosom of his shoulders;
No matter how I struggle and strive
thou thinkest satisfactory to me;
We're getting closer to the grave each day
of Menalippus out of spite, than this one
There'll be no one then to dry your tears.
when "Now be careful there!" my Teacher said,
Then suddenly I got that old time feeling
thus, too, the plaster quickly reached the wound;
We live in two different worlds, dear
Among the intermediate souls I was,
I eat three bones for dinner today, then tried to tree a 'Coon
and fight; even such became those filthy faces
No matter what you do
"˜Why, Beatrice,' she said, "˜true Praise of God,
YOU KILLED ALL THE LOVE I EVER HAD.
and try it, if he can; for thou shalt here
Don't hurt me more, show my heart some respect.
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the fire, but lies there scornful and awry,
Well, why don't you be just like you used to be
devised by him to cast himself below!"
But deep inside the sorrow shows
now to all recognition makes them dark.
Comes down after you
I do not think it were a sadder sight
Oh! Lord I see his burdens are greater than mine.
over some people who, it seemed, emerged
Will they meet again tomorrow where we parted yesterday
while southward now the nights pursue their way;
You thought she'd care for you and so you acted smart
I, in like manner, shall down yonder fall,
Lord you better keep it on your mind
But could I see the woeful soul of Guido,
Go on an break, you Crazy Heart
In his direction then my Sage cried out:
Tonight as I sit here alone in my cell
was gnawing at the skull and other parts.
Years have passed since that parting
a base assassin, who, on being planted,
Before it is too late
that in the second ring thou art, and wilt be,
And your eyes are dimmed by passing years
the coin on which the Baptist's form is stamped;
I knew she was part of, his happier years
their villages and strongholds to defend,
A House Without Love is not a home.
And I, who with them am tormented here,
Now I'm so happy no sorrow in sight
for shelter we withdrew behind the lid
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.
of traitor to thee in thy castle-towns,
How He brought salvation when He made me whole
the one who of the loss had been the cause;
Baby, rock, let's rock on down the line
When I had heard those sorely troubled souls,
On the dixie cannon- ball
But tell him who thou wast, that he, by way
And the love light no longer shines
a windmill looks when seen from far away;
Oh the blues come around
an augur was, when Greece lacked males so much,
We always fuss and fight
emblazoned with an azure pregnant sow,
Moon in all your splendor knows only my heart
we entered on the passage of the deep,
With shoulders stooped and heads bowed low and eyes that stare in defeat
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that blood, until it only cooked their feet;
And you know you cause it all by telling lies
but with them there he did not long remain,
On His head the thorns did lay
And in like fashion suffer in this ditch
Your daddy's mad; He's done got pee-eeved
has fallen into his adversaries' hands."
Oh, please understand.
seems not unfitting to a thoughtful man;
You have to set on a sack of fetilizer to raise an "umbreller"
And then, addressing me, they said: "O Tuscan,
And knelt beside her bed
he had to show assurance in his face.
KAW-LIGA - A, just stands there as lonely as can be
while still another mends a jib or mainsail; "
Oh! Plea-ease - don't let me love you
within the heaven that hath the smallest circles,
And he won't get a chance again,
there lies a lake which is Bení co called.
Oh see the greatness of the crowd
Amen could not have been as quickly said,
So come and ride that glorious train
He here bewails the money of the French;
No more darkness no more night
They struck each other, not with hands alone,
Rock my cradle once again.
"Do honor to the loftiest of poets!
When my work here is o'er
and led me to the bush, which all in vain
When things go wrong, you go your way
was he, for whom, Gavillí«, thou dost weep.
Cause her daddy had gone far away,
a region in the middle of the fen,
I'll listen for whistle
so stuck together, that in little time
At night when I am sad and lonely
their juncture left no mark that could be seen.
Don't worry, 'cause I ain't got no wife
Geri del Bello I then heard him called.
It's rocky and it's rough
I said: "If, Teacher, thou hide not thyself
We hope you like our version of 'em
after its pitiless and daring women
To lay all his money down.
The place, where to descend the bank we came,
AN STICK YA FINGER IN YOUR EYE
I rained from Tuscany not long ago.
Paved with all the tribulations
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No further in it did we read that day."
Now you see these teeth that I ain't got and these knots on my bald head
and this man here Ruggieri, the Archbishop;
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
the world to Chaos hath been oft reduced;
A little fellow about my size got tired of being pushed about
on every side the deep and foul abyss
And I buried my heart with her
who wishes now that he had given heed
It's waiting there for you and me
I wished to tell him: "See that thou embrace me!"
Ev'rything's again' me and it's got me down
and downward from the ridge of that hard bank,
And deny my God and doon my soul
My Leader then went down into the boat,
Since my baby said goodbye
Whereat the other leprous one, who heard me,
Yeah the honky tonk blues
dost thou not succour him who loved thee so,
For he was the one ray of sunshine
she feeds through life on neither herbs or grain,
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain
see that thou tell the people about us."
He begged for the crumbs from the rich man to eat
nor for a tongue that says "˜mamma' and "˜dad';
I'm satisfied with you.
while he was barking, with his eyes turned down;
FOR NO MATTER HOW MUCH EARTHLY WEALTH YOU GET HOLD,
the uproar of a dread-inspiring sound,
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie...
then fasting proved more powerful than pain."
When the whistle blows, i'll be on my toes,
They blended each with each in such a way
And when that whistle blows, I've gotta go,
even thus, as o'er a precipice it fell,
But that was before
Because I severed those who thus were joined,
I used to be the patient kind
as doth a knife the scales of bream, or fish
Her mama said: "No-o, she's my only daughter,"
informed thereby of what had happened, said:
HONEY WON'T YOU HOLD ME TIGHT, START YOUR TURTLE DOVEIN'
divides itself, while in the other case,
Met my future wife today
What of my course you tell, I write, and keep,
If sugar seems sweet then you ought to meet
as in this dim light I perceive they are."
Calling for you (my brother) don't turn away (from Jesus)
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which from Vercelli slopes to Marcabí².
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ THAT MULE CAN'T GET NO REST
no help; their nails kept scraping down their scabs,
Then you'll be ready to go home
this man can give what most is longed for here;
Ev'rybody's thinkin' 'bout somebody else
a place art set, and to such punishment,
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
Abram the patriarch, and David king,
The well's gone dry and I have to tote the water
Then, afterward, the latter needs must fall
I'm going home, I'm going home
that, howsoe'er I gazed into its depths,
Can you smile and say
shall Jason be, of whom in Maccabees
For my neighbor's one child had been pulled from the path
"are three small circles which, from grade to grade,
And no matter how much you boast and brag you can still learn a thing or two
when at the stars he gazed, or at the sea.
If you'll follow Him each day
sealeth both Sodom and Cahors, and him
I could smile and say that I don't care
and thus conceal their feet and all the rest;
And now the bitter teardrops start
The kindly Teacher said: "Now, son, at last
And hurt her more each day
That scourged one thought that he could hide himself
I'm nutty as a fruitcake
because of cold
I've just told Mama goodbye
to thee, as soon as on the dismal strand
He wears up that apetite that way
that those of others would be burnt-out coals.
Moa-oanin' the blues.
"Whoe'er thou art, sad soul, that holdest down
I've sent your saddle home.
with tiring effort and with stress of breath
Heading for the pearly gates for there my savior waits
this led mine eyes, as counter to its path
I don't aim to meddle in your business I'm just tryin' to save you an awful price
While we were speeding through the stagnant trench,
I went and broke my darlin's heart
the cold, and from his eyes, his saddened heart
Move it on over (move it on over)
"Of Navarre's kingdom I a native was.
Can't you hear the Blessed Saviour Callin' You?
There is a place down there, as far removed
I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You ...
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to see if thou alone art more than we!"
In the Book of Revelation, words in chapter sixteen say
Ceuta I'd left already on the other.
She'd cook something bye and bye,
And he made answer: "That was Fra Gomita,
Won't you sometimes think of me
And he to me: "I would not have thee frightened;
Lord, I've been waitin' too long
for other shelter was there none. I now "
If you're thinkin' of me like i'm thinkin' of you
"Henceforth" said I, "I would not have thee speak,
The preacher's comin' Sunday - to spend the day
and I still gazing at its lofty wall,
Well, you're just in time to be too late
"In that thine arrogance, O Capaneus,
I found myself a'bleedin', and very much a'needin',
I looked about to know where I might be.
And get revenge by telling lies
thou knowst, as also what is left unsaid."
DID YOU EVER SEE A JASS ACK CRY
that, howsoe'er I gazed into its depths,
Shake it on over (move it on over)
Ere now have I seen cavalry break camp,
Mercy abundantly waits
which he had spoiled behind. He then began:
I'm footloose and I'm fancy free
bidding thee lick the mirror of Narcissus."
Have you finished your building in Glory
and see that with thy feet thou trample not
HE SAID THE TROUBLE WITH YOU AIN'T IN MY BOOK,
From o'er a thousand springs, I trow, 'tween Garda
the boys all whistle when she walks by.
as thou hast said, to land upon the shore?"
The children're all with you now the kindly doctor said
The pierced man gazed at it, but nothing said;
What pain He suffered there
hereafter break on him; heed other things,
To drift from pillar to post
are here within; I speak not of the rest."
And temptation comes your way
that I might see all details of the trench
You got me chasin' Rabbits, scratchin' fleas and Howlin' At The Moon.
first here, then there, they helped them with their hands,
I could tell my friends I threw you down
on one side, and deprived of it the other,
Oh! Lord his burdens are greater than mine.
they utter wailings on the uncouth trees.
'Cause that's the life I believe, He meant for me
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whose ruddy color makes me shudder still.
This ain't right and that is wrong
a few, who by these sins polluted were."
These blues have got me cryin'
an apron was, showed quite so much of him
Is love her ev'ry mornin', bawl her out at night
between the well and that hard, high wall's base,
Now I lay awake, dear, with tears in my eyes
I then began, "say something, if thou canst."
You've grown cold and no longer care for me
Justice infallible, is punishing
Roly Poly eats a hard day dinner it takes lots of strenght to run and play
and, thus embarassed, we abandoned them.
So I can get me somethin' to eat
And as the usurer takes another course,
YOU KILLED ALL THE LOVE I EVER HAD.
and said: "Stand off, while I am clutching him!"
There's no room in my heart for the blues
they 're set apart, and why less wrathfully
Don't forget your brother as you travel through this land wait for the light to shine
converse with me and satisfy my wishes.
Death may be lingering near.
down yonder bank which lowest lies, from him
Won't you come back again and break mine
to seek their profit and avoid their loss,
I've sent your saddle home.
even thus, as o'er a precipice it fell,
Then will you be ready to go home
such was that sinner, after he had risen.
And ever evenin' I'm sorrow bound
The latter moved; and then, as on we went,
Raised his head, we heard him say.
Scolding, he said: "Why greedier art thou
Though his leg was very crippled
to win the green cloth; and of these he seemed
I don't believe the good Lord meant for a man to win
when single, were more easily put out "
I'm not gonna worry wrinkles in my brow
the nature of the place shoots forth, I 'd say
The moonshiner's waitin' at the still
in one part only, that Nature takes her course
Then bows his head that his shame he might hide
stoop, then, nor twist thy muzzle. He can still
Then will you be ready to go home
for one of their own company they made me,
Raised in the likeness of my Savior
thus to remove the blame she had incurred.
When the Lord made me, He made a Ramblin' Man
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I, with these Florentines, a Paduan am,
It's the California Zephyr, the Union Pacific Queen
many ere now to lead unhappy lives.
Ev'rybody's longin' for somebody else
My Leader then with bold and ready hands
My broken heart cries out for you
howe'er it weep therefor, and be ashamed.
Jesus died for me long ago
Since each of them in common shares with me
Was the only daughter of an en-gin-eer,
Is not all moving air quenched here below?"
And now I've got another date
with eyes askance, and uttered not a word;
Sinner man won't you stop now and pray
this wild and rough and stubborn woodland was,
I heard my darlin' call
let my Tesoro, in which I 'm still alive,
On a stone, these words were written
and stretched their hooks out toward the pitch-belimed,
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain.
and of the French a sanguinary heap,
If you mind your own business, you'll stay busy all the time.
Down on the whole great waste of sand there rained
I knew she was part of, his happier years
If it be true the right bank slopeth so,
Take these chains from my heart and set me free
your art is grandchild, as it were, to God.
This story happened
Bowstring ne'er shot an arrow from itself,
I'll meet my loved ones there, in that land so bright and fair
for thee I know, all filthy though thou be!"
Good gal, just let me know
hence look around thee well, and things thou 'lt see,
On the Tennessee Border
We crossed the circle to the other bank
Just a little old shanty by a railroad track,
and, even as she wished, I came to thee,
A blossom from an orange tree in your hair
for they persuaded me to coin the florins,
I'd rather be in a deep, dark grave
So dark it was, so deep and full of mist,
For my neighbor's one child had been pulled from the path
like these, and took such executioners
No more tears, no pain, no woe, in this wicked world below
and who is he that showeth thee the way?"
I'll miss you but no one will ever know
was courteous, considering the great result
Well I heard the dishes crashin',
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by vapor from below, which, sticking there,
You no longer care for me but when you're happy with another
Out of the mouth of each a sinner's feet
I've been a fool about you, but now I'm gonna get gone
if it were not that conscience reassures me,
just waiting by your telephone
because his eyesight could not lead him far
She's watching and waiting alone
in that I answered him in this strain only:
SHE SAID I WOULDN'T MARRY YOU, IF ALL THE REST WERE DEAD.
which closes in the sandy plain with stone.
We little thought about it then for we were young and gay
Bestir thee, then, and with thy finished speech,
I sat in my seat just thinkin' it o'er
Know then, in brief, that clerics were they all,
We were happy, oh so happy little darlin'
none waited for the second, or the third.
With tears in my eyes, dear, I begged you to stay
said: "Teacher, what is this I hear? What folk
Goodbye Joe me gotta go me oh my oh
down here, will from their vessel be cast forth,
Ev'rybody's yearnin' for somebody else
perhaps, shalt thou receive what thou dost ask."
You have no right to be the judge to criticize and condemn
Morocco and the island of the Sards,
Settle down far from town get me a pirogue
alloweth none to pass along her way,
and that we two could get along
He thereupon concealed himself; and I,
And longs for the love he can't replace.
and more, thou hadst it, when thou madest coin."
Cause I tell you right now the hide's gettin' sca'ce
induced these souls to take the woeful step!"
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
when people in the great round trench I saw
Then if you no longer care
While toward the lowland I was falling fast,
It's on its way to heaven now
Great sorrow filled my heart on hearing this,
You say get out and I'd better stay gone
as I perceive, so great a woe, and what
Like a piece of driftwood on the sea
This we ascended with the greatest ease,
But you think that you're above me
Wide be thy wheels, and gradual thy descent;
If I want to honky tonk around 'til two or three
By palsy some, perhaps, may thus have been
Shake it on over (move it on over)
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along a path which to a valley leads,
Are you on the road that leads to wrong
under the guidance of a single boatman,
I got a feelin' called the blues, oh Lord
gushed upward though the lids; whereat the cold,
'Cause ne'er again will I ask you to stay.
they 'll come to bloodshed, and the boorish party
Her love like the leaves now has withered and gone.
makes beckoning signs to them, collects them all,
I've tried and tried to run and hide
But she is blest, and gives no heed to that;
Sweep it on over (move it on over)
"Those flatteries immersed me here below,
I haven't had the chance that other kids had
While I was singing him such notes as these,
Then the gods would deny you on the great judgement day.
and cannot walk, but plunges here and there;
You should see the people stare
and there, by reason of the horrible
Hinky-dinky, (Rootie Tootie)
We thus passed through with slowly moving steps
And I'll catch all the fish in the bayou
hence onward urge thyself a little more."
You don't dress up in satin,
so that amid such wisdom I was sixth.
Now you can go but there's no need to hurry
Hence, that to him the Opponent of all ill
When I get to Glory, I'm gonna sing, sing, sing.
As is that downfall on the hither side
Now my heart is broke it's sad and it's sore
the ancient prow goes on its way, and cuts
When you are sad and lonely and have no place to go
whither thou art so eager to return.'
Louiville Nashville Montgomery the cap'tal of Ala-bam
I still give praise and render thanks to God.
And ever evenin' I'm sorrow bound
We 've reached the place where, as I said to thee,
From out of the sky, He's coming to meet me
and of another answering from so far,
Why, oh why do we keep tryin'
And were it not for this, that I am still
I'll tell then I found true love with another
in that I answered him in this strain only:
The durned old mule - he tore down the fence
is fit enough adornment for his breast.
Of a heartbroken mother and baby
who lets his feelings judge Divine Decrees?
Now I went down to the bank this morning,
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thine is the fever and the aching head;
My lonely mind wanders back to days that used to be
with anguish and with awful torture filled.
But I knew her love would never set me free
When I had given myself to peering further,
For time has prove I was wrong
was drawing nigh when food was brought to us,
So, Why Don't You Love Me like you used to do.
there found we Plutus, the great enemy.
Left my darlin' alone,
the means to give my sighs a greater flight.
Jesus said ,come on to me
for in my mind is fixed, and stirs e'en now
You done kicked me till I feel like a used football
and, when they called each other, noticed how.
'Cause I'm satisfied with you.
which soareth like an eagle o'er the rest.
While my precious darling's sleeping
If to know who I am concern thee so,
Since my baby said goodbye
who used to call shades back into their bodies.
I'll still be waiting for you
a common form of death and vice of courts,
'Cause I just don't like this way of livin'.
which caused thee to be valiant against Charles.
I could tell this world I've found a new love
As, when a fog is thinning off, one's gaze
I like candy, I like cake, I like jam but goodness sake
who lights the world, least hides his face from us,
Can you smile and say
advancing through the noisome air toward us,
That you have been true
the other two were to the latter joined
Lord I don't know what I'll do
and now that Barbariccia was approaching,
The cigar smoke, and some of these wonderful songs
held out their heads, and even all their chest;
Dress in style and go hog wild me oh my oh
Then to the friar he addressed these words:
And the joy within me made my glad heart weep
make themselves heard by means of woeful sighs?"
I've been a fool about you, but now I'm gonna get gone
On hearing him, more were there than a hundred
There's a road that's straight and narrow
As is that downfall on the hither side
NO NOT NOW, BUT MAYBE NEXT WEEK SOME - HOW.
see how he writhes, and utters not a word!
If you'll be a baby to me
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Ravenna is, as she for many years
And now I ain't gonna love you anymore.
along a ditch which from it takes its shape.
He spoke of his angel, a dear baby girl
and more, whom love had from our life cut off.
A love-light beams across the foam
than one is like the other, if beginning
May you never be alone like me.
through the dark air, and through the heavy fog.
Have you finished your building in Glory
one of thy troop, at whose side we may be,
I'm gonna tuck my worries underneath my arm
thou canst not fail to reach a glorious port,
Now I'm so happy no sorrow in sight
That Lord then, who had brought me thither, said:
A little girl prayed at the close of the day,
the arms he plied he moveth now no more."
The mean old freight train blues.
there, like a grain of spelt, it germinates.
There was a note upon my door,
Seville I left behind me on the right hand,
God has saved her wand'ring boy.
when like a little cloud it rose on high;
Where the soul of man never dies
from off his back, but brought me to the hole
Oh I gave you love and you broke my heart,
I then began, through wishing to be sure
I've tried and tried to run and hide
who he was, thou, if Tuscan, now knowst well.
I tried so hard,my dear,to show that you're my every dream
when lo, a mountain loomed before us, dim
You're not buyin'
the land, which hitherto was spread out here,
That time has turned the tide
and gave them back to him who now was weak.
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
Hippocrates, Avicenna, Galen,
Call me up, sweet baby, and bring along some dough
He then returned along the filthy road,
Your dad-ad-dy is lon-one-some
returned; and never was a mastif loosed
No one will ever see the tears I'm hiding
My Leader then: "Now tell me: know'st thou any,
Goodbye to this world, with all its sorrows
that e'er the lower was my steady foot.
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
And this I 've said, that it may give thee pain!"
To find the best deal in town.
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As in a circle, round that road we went,
And when you're in that juryroom just remember there and then
and, dreaming, wishes that he dreamt, and thus,
and do it all up right
and from idolaters how differ ye,
He loved every footstep, he loved every curl
is pity. Who, then, guiltier is than he
When the ev'nin' train goes by
"Be not afraid; for none can take from us
OF HOW OUR SAVIOR DIED, AS THEY NAILED HIS HANDS,
along the fissure bathed the back. Indeed,
But we got married on the Tennessee Border.
that very soon it would have hurt our ears.
Life can be sad when you're livin' all alone
since scarcely could we two, though he was light,
All I can say's I tried dear
unless it sink beneath its body's weight!
Now gentlemen that's my story my testimony stands
A clamp ne'er bound so tightly board to board;
No more pain worry sorrow
saw muddy people in that slimy marsh,
And you got no place to go
lo, a six-footed serpent hurls itself
But I found I couldn't hide
which maketh excrement of what is swallowed.
Lead you to that promise land
began to speak without delay: "O soul,
Her personality made me want her
When by that gathering I had thus been eyed,
Just come along with me
fitted to claw him well, they both fell down
Rootie Tootie, she's my Sunday gal.
that 'neath the water there are folk who sigh,
That it was gossip, not flowers, she had on her mind
And he to me, like one aware, replied:
He died there on the cross
By palsy some, perhaps, may thus have been
If you stay over in your world
just over us; but naught was now to fear;
When my life here is o'er I'm going home
upon their heads, and Popes and Cardinals,
All alone without a friend
as if attacked by fever or by sleep.
And all we got left is one old Billy goat
upon the left slope of the Apennines,
I can't forget lovin' you
and crouches now, and now is on her feet.
I prayed there and God had His way. (For-)
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recall to mind our avaricious breasts."
I told her that I'd spend the rest of my days
shatters, lays low, and carries off its boughs;
You only build me up to let me down
He stopped attentive like a man who listens;
Is love her ev'ry mornin', bawl her out at night
But who are ye, adown whose cheeks there drips,
Lead you to that promise land
is barking with three throats, as would a dog,
AND YA LIGHT OF LOVE IS SHININ' BRIGHT
as if the latter were the tongue that spoke,
His Garments were sackled, all tattered and torn
And one I saw, who like a lute were shaped,
Nothin' seems to make a turn
the causes were, and of the Papal Robe.
And so my heart is paying now for things I didn't do
"Now let Medusa come! We 'll turn him thus
You are on my lonely mind
of all these other ill-born spirits strike,
We're goin' to the city - to the city fair
the body of the shade that winters here
'Cause I know you'll be untrue.
great kings, who here shall be like pigs in mire,
I said "I'll go down, take a look at the crowd
and he who made our ladder with his hair,
I'm gonna throw my date book over the fence
that one perforce employed another's name,
But darlin' I'll forget you, your memory will die
Before me there was naught created, save
Never give up hope or cast your pearls and pour this wine wait for the light to shine
How many now up yonder think themselves
If you say so babe, we'll stay all night
Daylight was going, and the dusky air
I know I can never make you happy
but eats, and drinks, and sleeps, and dons his clothes."
A long time ago
together with the bodies they have left
Please let me pretend that I am there
am ready for whatever Fortune wills.
So baby, if you wants to shine
if news of thee thou 'dst have me bear above,
Just like you used to be
"Spread we the nets," he cried, "that I may take,
For time has prove I was wrong
he of the swollen paunch, "and bitter be
But it can't chill my heart
I sorrowed then, and now again I sorrow,
But they'll never never take her love from me.
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was turned to grief; for from the new-found land
Don't come back now It is too late
To make him out I therefore stayed my feet;
On that great day I'm going home
and that high peak from which the Tiber springs."
In Life's many battles that you will have to fight
while with his paws he gathered in the air.
On the dixie cannonball, on the dixie cannonball,
He was the grandson of the good Gualdrada;
And I'd bow my head and cry again
"Nearer than thou dost hope" he then replied,
You never would admit you were mis-tak-en
And he to me: "These things will be made clear
I could tell the world you're doin' wrong
who could not raise their bodies. Two of these
Hoping and prayin' some day you'd be true
He who was lying down thrusts forth his muzzle,
Go on an break, you Crazy Heart
Then, toward my Teacher having turned his face,
Your cheatin' heart
There be thy conversation brief; meanwhile,
I'm lonesome and O how I feel
for, as I thought it over, I gave up
Nor she didn't say goodbye,
Thereat the trunk blew hard, and afterward
Rootie Tootie, (Rootie Tootie)
if Heaven now sweeten, or Hell poison them."
I'll pretend I'm free from sorrow
which seemed from human privies to have come.
Some glad day I'm going home
ought to be met by deeds without a word."
At the break day
beneath, for I 'm for more of them returning
But I knew her love would never set me free
hatred toward him thou eatest, tell me why,"
There'll be no more strife
I then began, through wishing to be sure
He always wore his Sunday feathers and held a tomahawk
been banished from the natural life of man;
Where all is joy, peace and love
't was in this fashion that I heard him speak:
We'll be strong enough to face our last goodbye
alloweth none to pass along her way,
His life's blood almost gone
who, vexed and baffled thus, flies up again.
And turn in fire alarms
see'st not the death that fights him on the flood,
The Devil's Train will take you
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had caused my eyes to be so drunk with tears,
Lawd, the blues come around
one inch, I 'd be already on the road,
I knew someday that you would wed another
and with that little company, by whom
Just listen to the whistle, it'll thrill you one and all,
as I have, on his belly o'er this path."
And yet there's nothin' wrong with me
nor, thus bent over, did he linger there,
Where the soul........never dies
because of foresight they had been deprived.
When time goes crawling by
are doomed those carnal sinners, who subject
And we agree that love is gone
might each his blessing give, if there he went.
Of a heartbroken mother and baby
A sudden separator was the heat;
Darling, I could never be ashamed of you.
was he, for whom, Gavillí«, thou dost weep.
All alone without a friend
of fallen rocks, which often 'neath my feet
I've lost faith in dreams somehow
Then round he turned, and seemed to be of those
The darkness is falling, the sky has turned gray
a region in the middle of the fen,
Now, honey, let's go honky tonkin'
is pity. Who, then, guiltier is than he
Will pine some day
when here another cried: "What ails thee, Bocca?
And you're pillows stained with tears from your blue eyes
upon himself the edge of finger-nails
Faded love and winter roses yearning hearts that used to be
As little flowers by the chill of night
I just can't go - you win again.
To manifest aright what here was new,
Rootie Tootie, she's my Wednesday gal.
in that I answered him in this strain only:
My neighbor then smiled and I thought:
which 'neath the rain's tormenting punishment
And leave these honky tonk blues,
There, to escape all human fellowship,
Run along run along don't you pester me further
But whereas fraud is man's peculiar evil,
Alone and forsaken by fate and by man
Not long its course, before it finds low ground,
LORD I NEVER KNEW A MAN COULD FEEL SO BAD,
He who to that one's belly turns his back,
Can you face them and say
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whom thou describest as so whelmed with woe."
Skies above are dark and stormy
I saw a shape, which would have chilled with wonder
But when they lifted his head they found he was dead
and when he wholly felt himself in play,
Bouncy-bouncy, (Rootie Tootie)
for great desire constraineth me to learn
Now Mary was just a plain mother
one fashions oars, another cordage twists,
Still live in my heart all alone
"Into this blind world let us now descend!"
You better start to treat me nice
those frightful Giants, whom, when from the sky
When the time comes to die
while southward now the nights pursue their way;
Go on and break you Crazy Heart.
before He placed the Keys in his control?
Callin' You?, (Callin' You?)
thou oughtest to be feared, who readeth here
And hung a sign on my front gate
then settled in the place where I was born;
Keep these wordson your mind as you walk out narrow line wait for the light to shine
Teacher," said I on rising, "talk to me
Can you truthfully say
and now, alas, I crave a drop of water.
There's nothin' as sweet as my baby
With the ten demons we were going on;
The bar-fly's waitin' for an easy mark
ere thou shalt know how heavy that art is.
When you're not in my arms
booms loud, because of falling o'er a cliff
every day and every night
gave forth a wind, whence flashed vermilion light
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and filé gumbo
more water than with others is its wont.
The bees got mad - and they left the hive
until thou reach the horrid plain of sand;
YOU LEAVE ME ALONE AND RUN AROUND,
"O thou, to whom I now address my voice,
The moon just went behind the clouds
But that fiend, who was with my Leader talking,
Sometimes I get so weary inside
see that thou tell the people about us."
and look what you have loved me thru.
Hence, since he so had wished it, I began:
Jesus is calling, calling night and day
And then, for I perceived it not before,
Before you ask for more.
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I was created by the Might divine,
There's no room in my heart for the blues
When we o'er Malebolgí«'s final cloister
Now she don't get my rockin' chair
And he: "Thou knowest that the place is round,
And so my poor dear mourners let your hearts with Jesus rest
I 'm not Aeneas, nor yet Paul am I;
The trees stand so silent and still
Nor speaking less do I, on this account,
You sing loud and I'll sing louder tonight we're settin' the woods on fire
and take good care of that ill-gotten wealth,
Mama's day with her children is through.
Out of their eyes their woe was bursting forth;
She's long gone, and now I'm lonesome blue
If yonder thou attain, thou 'lt clearly see
There's always somebody smarter than you
with wings outspread, and light upon his feet!
I could tell my friends I threw you down
da Siena had me burned;" one then replied,
The kisses we steal we know are not real
one stood before me filled with mud, and said:
I'm going away where, life is eternal
thine is the fever and the aching head;
Stick your head out the window and feel that southern breeze
nor let your foul and loathsome punishment
And i'll shuffle down the aisle,
I then began, "say something, if thou canst."
Her personality made me want her
Know, then, that I Count Ugolino was,
And live with Him someday
my heart, that dear and kind paternal face
And they had their little family quarrels
O Memory, that wrotest what I saw,
I got all that I can do just to mind my own
thou canst not fail to reach a glorious port,
For always when we'd step aside she'd call and we'd reply
from 'neath the little bridge those devils issued,
Thiinking of you
who stops and begs at once from where he is;
They're gone to return no more
is on his journey o'er the lonely slope
But we were all too young back then to understand the reason why
"Be he now first to thee, and second I."
My world is honest and true
So far we were already from the wood,
DID YOU EVER SEE A JASS ACK CRY
And he said: "Turn around; what doest thou?
When my life here is o'er I'm going home
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Diogenes, Anaxagoras and Thales,
No matter how I struggle and strive
This is Megaera here upon the left;
And I stare at the water so deep
"My son," the courteous Teacher said to me,
...And Howlin' At The Moon.
And I to him: "I 'd have thee teach me still,
What makes you treat me like a piece of clay
"Art thou that Virgil, then, that fountain-head
I could buy a Sunday suit and it would leave me broke
that, while the serpent fork-wise clove its tail,
But last night I heard you crying in your sleep
and one of which, not many years ago,
And some mother rocked him, her darlin to sleep
he there made of himself and of a bush
And he could not speak his name
the three sparks that have set men's hearts on fire,
Do you think that it's smart to jump from heart to heart
from circle unto circle down through Hell;
Yet, he smiled in understandin'
by turbid clouds enveloped; next, with wild
Don't worry, 'cause I ain't got no wife
and hear what through eternity resounds."
I mean I ain't gonna love you anymore,
bearing within us fumes of surliness;
You better call her sweet mama,
then said: "Wrongly did he report the thing,
I went to the country - just the other day
By this tree's uncouth roots, I swear to you,
I want to know each step you take that I may walk the same
if I deserved of you or much or little,
OF HOW OUR SAVIOR DIED, AS THEY NAILED HIS HANDS,
"Now, Teacher, show me who these people are,
Yes I knew the day I lost you
makes them appear so eager to cross over,
What can i do love with my heart
attention here!" His finger then he raised.
why I'd seen perhaps a thousand in my hurried southern trips.
Charon, the demon, with his ember eyes
Mama's day with her children is through.
conduct me thither where thou saidst just now,
I've told you once, now I'll tell you twice
see whether it be fit to bear thy weight."
Because it isn't true
Ill-giving and ill-keeping took from them
TOOK MY GAL TO THE PICTURE SHOW, JUST THE OTHER DAY,
that I should show another this wild road."
Can't you hear the Blessed Saviour Callin' You?
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as not to close mine eyes with his as well.
THERE'S A STORY OLD, THAT HAS OFTEN BEEN TOLD,
and Rachel, too, for whom he did so much,
Now gentlemen that's my story my testimony stands
and how am I to blame for thy bad life?"
Mother is gone, to her home
"who hath his head within, and plies his legs
And there as I listened, my eyes filled with tears
and wiped it on the hair of that same head,
On the altar was a casket and in the casket was a child.
Of naked souls I many flocks beheld,
I couldn't stand to see you wed another
it spread its hind feet out along his thighs,
Load'er up boys
were not a lion's, but a fox's deeds.
You told her lies and alibis
yet once had been so daring in his speech!
That woman of mine she wouldn't let me in
displays its theft, though each a sinner hides.
She left the sink a'saggin',
a place art set, and to such punishment,
In your loveless mansion on the hill
said to me: "What dost thou in this our ditch?
I'll have a new body
depart not; but let one of you inform us
He whispered my baby, your waiting I know
then with its teeth it wounded both his cheeks;
I'm lost on the river
but, as I told him, his own spitefulness
You'll dig up the money or you'll work the streets
and taking hold of one, Learchus named,
And live with Him someday
Thereat my Teacher over his right cheek
But she don't care about me
upon the left slope of the Apennines,
You said you could live without loving
my fellows by this little speech of mine,
My Yvonne the sweetest one me oh my oh
the penalty which sparkles on you thus?"
We met in the springtime when blossoms unfold
and thou 'dst not stand in need of many words
So why should we try anymore
on seeing that the world has shortly changed
Won't it be so sweet, to rest at Jesus' feet
and, of our persons rid, as fast as flies
These wasted tears are souvenirs
And he to me, like one aware, replied:
It wasn't in you to play square.
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and count on me as ever at thy side,
I watched my dream world crumble like clay
and grappled with him o'er the ditch; but he,
Heart filled with strife
God hates it most; therefore the fraudulent
You'll dig up the money or you'll work the streets
This one therein a lord and huntsman seemed,
The mem'ry of your helping hand will buoy me on with hope
because of which I thought within myself
Hey Roly Poly eatin' corn and taters hungry every minute of the day
My mind, to vent its feelings of disdain,
They strengthened their own selfish pride
the utterance of those true, clear words of mine.
Won't you sometimes think of me
We turned our backs upon the woeful vale
When old Gabriel blows his trumpet
"Thou 'lt see thy chance when nearer us they are;"
I'll keep it till it's covered with age
't is well that, while he rages, thou descend."
I wish that I was with my darling
The sinner then, who understood, feigned not,
Think of days that are gone dear
hath this reward. Ephialtes is his name;
And a womans lies makes a life like mine
with just as many flames the whole eighth trench
In this wicked world of sin
in order to behold the next ravine
Will you please make up your mind what you want me to do
which said: "Pope Anastasius I contain,
Now he has gone up to Heaven we know
of pain's abysmal valley, which collects
To spend eternity
concerning him was questioning my Leader,
And he won't get a chance again,
See Helen, for whose sake so long a time
HOW CAN YOU REFUSE HIM NOW, HOW CAN YOU REFUSE HIM NOW,
and which hath more than once increased your pain?
Are the pictures from life's other side
the Trojans' arrogant, all-daring power,
You made your world out of vows that are broken
On coming up to us, they watched me long
But now you are gone it's over and so
know that Bertran de Born I am, the man
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain.
and which above is Acquacheta called,
But you think that you're above me
not far from here, who speaks, and, since unbound,
Way off in the distance
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by one of them; and instantly I said:
But I've seen my blue skies all turn to gray
down to the plain, the rock is shattered so,
Darlin', if our pathways part, let there be no broken hearts
To him my Leader: "Charon, be not vexed;
That I will never know contentment
and to a meadow of fresh grass we came.
These words he said with tears in his eyes
It was no palace hallway where we were,
I'm going home, I'm going home
to hinder it from floating on its surface.
When your soul is burdened down
even so went that one down across the sand.
She called my name o'er and o'er
My Leader, giving heed to these their cries,
I scratched your name right off my slate
or by another's, hence, who then was blest?"
It hurts me to know you are unhappy
will drive the other out with much offence.
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
"I beg you to with all my power;" said I,
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ THAT MULE CAN'T GET NO REST
What was the master's power who girded him,
Calling for you (my brother) don't turn away (from Jesus)
which, since it packs the air, the mist conceals;
And we'll go Honky Tonkin', Honky Tonkin'
he made his belly scrape the solid ground.
You'll meet her up there in heaven so fair
whence I to him: "My Teacher, who moves this?
My world is honest and true
and cruel storm, a battle will be fought
AN KICKS HIS HEELS UP TO THE SKY
for short the time were for so long a talk.
But nobody thinks about me
from what they purposed freed himself thereby.
Where an angel from above
whither souls go to wash themselves, when once
I know that I - should leave, but then
wherein the servant of the Most High Lord,
A House Without Love is not a home.
because his words were like a drunkard's words.
And all we got left is one old Billy goat
that frequently a soul falls into it,
For the words said, Mother is gone.
ere Atropos have caused it to move on.
dollar weighs ten, dollar weighs ten
shalt thou attain a shore to pass across,
And there as I listened, my eyes filled with tears
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panting like one worn out, my Teacher said,
That I should be ashamed to take you 'round
must I needs show to him the dark abyss;
The life-termer's waitin' for a prison break
When I had heard those sorely troubled souls,
Honey do you have to love so doggone rough
which from me thus hath torn away my leaves,
How's about cooking somethin' up with me?
none waited for the second, or the third.
Stood a little paper boy so hungry and cold
here was the place for us to ford the ditch.
For the while my love is sleeping
As is that downfall on the hither side
YOU KILLED ALL THE LOVE I EVER HAD.
the boiling raised, and that the whole of it
When the ev'nin' train goes by
but tell me, if thou canst, to what will come
Said the little paper boy, there on the street
to bring thence confirmation in the faith,
Out on the corner standin' so bold
even so, since from the body of the flame
Ready to live in Paradise
The cloven tail was taking on the shape
I said I wouldn't tell it to a living soul
And he to me: "Thy town, which is so full
I saw the light I saw the light
Hinder thou not his fate-ordained advance;
Ev'rybody's yearnin' for somebody else
except the stubborn devils who came out
I can't fool my cryin' heart
roughly enswathes another class of people,
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
in Heaven wins grace, which thus advances them."
Now, You're Gonna Change or I'm a-gonna leave.
a little fiery serpent seemed to me,
Then you cry and ask the judge won't you please turn him loose
which crosses from the fourth bank to the fifth.
Heart filled with strife
That scourged one thought that he could hide himself
Life sometimes can be so cruel that a heart will pray for death
that it would yield a path for one above;
I've tried and tried to run and hide
and girt with water-snakes of brightest green;
But be sure to count your blessin's
let the long study, and the ardent love
WELL MY FRIEND IT WON'T SAVE, YOUR POOR WICKED SOUL.
where they are wont, a gimlet of their teeth.
Old cupid just gave us a shove
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"˜why I am not afraid to enter here.
In your loveless mansion on the hill
and stood dumbfounded, like a man who fears.
That should be ringing out for you and me
I, seeing Heaven so well disposed toward thee,
(Mind your own business)
and one descends the bank much further on."
I can't buy no beer.
And he to me: "They all will be locked in,
Now you're gone, our love could never be
which, since it packs the air, the mist conceals;
What good is gold and silver too
If thou wouldst know who those two near thee are,
And to ride these rails, 'neath God's blue sky
which seemed from human privies to have come.
than a country mile;
which in Cologne are fashioned for her monks.
I been lovin' that gal for so doggone long
Such bulwarks as, to keep the sea away,
The Angel of Death
hard by the Lateran had a war on hand,
I know I'd still want you.
hence in the second circle make their nest
I traveled from Texas to old Louisanne
of Her whose lovely eyes see everything,
On who I'd spent my money, turnin' into dy - na - mite,
to Minos, who lays hold on every one.
Stop doin' all the things that you oughten too
and he replied: "Into this wild ravine
Lord you better keep it on your mind
he had not set his hand on thee; whereas
and it matters not what we go through
which caused a trembling in the eternal air;
You'll see many loved ones standin' in the crowd
Some time had now from early morn elapsed,
My gal is the village bell
we found that colored water roaring so,
LORD I'D HAVE TO GET BETTER, BEFORE I COULD DIE.
"Turn back, and close thine eyes, for should the Gorgon
You promised darlin' that we'd never part
he asked me for advice, but I kept still,
When time goes crawling by
and that of his son, Abel, that of Noah,
For when she went away, my world ended that day
Lethe thou 'lt see, but there, outside this cave,
Weeping as they lay my darling
words of still greater weight would I employ;
If you're lovin' me like i'm lovin' you
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behind him as he talks. Then, having turned
Fall down on your knees and pray
go on with Ser Brunetto, asking who
Lips so sweet and tender like petals fallin' apart
O Simon Magus, O his wretched followers,
I was afraid to scold her, so I just gently told her,
one hammers at the stern, and at the prow another;
Tell me where you think we're goin'
Art thou so quickly sated with the wealth,
Trying to take me back please
while in the present ye do otherwise."
And you know you caused it all by telling lies
who, moving with exceedingly slow steps,
Those Broadway roses and prevalent sounds at too many parties and too many pals
Thus from the first of circles I went down
Six more miles, long and sad,
and how much gratitude I feel for this,
Are you building a Home in Heaven
"Dost thou, perhaps, think Athens' duke is here,
Nothing but daydreams to haunt me
to tell us how within these knotted trunks
Then the Parson came over and took his hand
"Thy trouble, Ciacco," I replied to him,
It seemed to us that mama heard the turnin' of the key
even had I turned around to look behind,
There'll be gathered there great armies for that battle on that day.
am come to where much wailing smiteth me.
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
the transformed figure seemed both two and none;
My helper, he quit - for the lack of pay
talking a little of the future life;
And since she's gone to Heaven
which now I saw, though oft he told the tale?
The nights are cool and I'm a fool.
But that thou scrape more gladly from my face
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart?
even by those who ought to give her praise,
That meant more to me than thou
and now, alas, I crave a drop of water.
I told her that I'd spend the rest of my days
that one is high, and low the following one;
Way down in the southland
I there was like a friar that confesses
Well then she started naggin',
If thou as wary art as thou art wont,
(Oh you) know that I love you no other will do
"If they were driven out," I answered him,
I'm not gonna worry wrinkles in my brow
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He was a haughty person in the world;
Go and leave me alone with these blues
because they cannot utter it with perfect speech.
Give my heart just a word of sympathy
is fit enough adornment for his breast.
Whom God has called back to the fold
could not outmeasure fear; as one went under,
We'll meet in heaven some glad day. ...
We thus passed through with slowly moving steps
Stick your head out the window and feel that southern breeze
weeps and is saddened in his every thought;
Ev'rybody's lonesome for somebody else
seized him for that fair body's sake, whereof
Wondering what I could do
is first received, it transfixed one of them,
When you'll be blue
and "˜at this moment' are no more alike,
Would you lend a helping hand
when not far off I saw them coming on
And now I can see the end of my journey
I had not been deserted. Both its shores
AS THE BLOOD FLOWED FROM HIS SIDE.
And I to him: "I come not by myself;
Watching the setting sun
on this ring's edge hath it appeared to us?"
I'll never get out of this world alive
a little fiery serpent seemed to me,
And to him these words he did say.
displays its theft, though each a sinner hides.
Last night I dreamed of heaven my eternal home sweet home
Thy fortune hath in store for thee such honor,
I'll always keep your picture it means so much to me
to see the whole race in Aegina sick,
He'll give his heart - but all in vain
had to its very bottom been revealed.
Now baby, just come on and smile
who toward the Castle all on one side face,
won't hurt me so.
perhaps to put off going to the torture
The durn rabbits - they got the turnip greens
our passage, since by such an One 't is given!
Now take the smart aleck in any town of him folks want no part
were in their first life so squint-eyed in mind,
Then I'll stop moanin'; Moa-oanin' The Blues.
Thereafter I beheld a thousand faces
And get revenge by telling lies
was my reply, "for me to place thy name,
Oh so humble you should be when they come passing by
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the lovely manner which hath done me honor.
And deny my God and doon my soul
and moved the latter, stretched out like an eel,
But they'll never never take her love from me.
No further in it did we read that day."
The first three months, was all OK,
First having well surveyed the ruined arch,
The children're all with you now the kindly doctor said
by looking down, but little it availed him;
Why should I pay, tell me why should I cry
the little lion of the white lair rules,
There's a tear in my beer
inscribed upon the summit of a gate;
"So please buy a paper from me
and bound he is, and shaped like this one, save
You've grown cold and no longer care for me
the memory of them freezes up my blood.
A song of old San Antone
the enterprise so hastily commenced.
And I'm lo-o-onesome
the band of cowards was, who both to God
The white hat, the high-heeled boots
And I to them: "On Arno's lovely stream,
And since she's gone to Heaven
"for I 'm not far from quarrelling with thee."
Where the soul of man never dies
and when the sixth embankment had been reached,
Well shut my mouth, i'm a'headin' south, on the dixie cannon-ball
A while he waited, then the Poet said:
What in the confounded cat hair you want me to do
Then of a sudden standing up, he cried:
I know that I would never be this blue
he said unto his mates: "Are ye aware
And Bill was just a usual dad
and as among the greedy Germans yonder,
Sets my sinful soul on fire
that he who comes behind moves what he touches?
Start with chapter twenty-four and read from one to thirty-three.
flattened between the fissures of the rock.
No matter how I struggle and strive
to one of them my Leader then began,
I've been a fool about you, but now I'm gonna get gone
and from the excessive matter coming there
You go get yourself a man that wants to fight
And even as cranes move on and sing their lays,
Once he was fair and once he was young
for flames were spread about within the tombs,
Now I'm so happy no sorrow in sight
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Charon, the demon, with his ember eyes
I don't believe the good Lord meant for a man to win
that outside undergo their punishment,
Well she didn't forward no address,
We 'll drag them with us here, and then our bodies
And my tears they fell like rain.
there, cursing, they blaspheme the Power Divine.
That the old-time religion was real
gambles away and dissipates his means,
Like the flowers in May, she withered away
Doth not the sweet light strike upon his eyes?"
If you'll be a baby to me
turned right around at them with threatening looks.
And took her, oh, so far away, but ol' KAW-LIGA stayed
There are no women here to sell for coin."
Drifting too far from the shore (from the shore)
that I had gladly gone another road.
We danced to the ALABAMA WALTZ.
or layman's head it were, was not apparent.
Your daddy's mad; He's done got pee-eeved
His shoulder, which was sharp and high, was loaded
Ready to live in Paradise
and pack of hounds approach his hunting-post,
The shadows sway and seem to say
"Dost thou think, Malacoda," said my Teacher,
I need not feel my way
I said: "You 'll therefore tell that fallen man
And a womans lies makes a life like mine
And he to me: "The honorable fame,
Now I got rockin' chair money
as would be fitting for the dismal hole,
Rootie Tootie, (Rootie Tootie)
if it again should chance that Fortune find thee
And as I wonder where you are
They pricked him then with o'er a hundred prongs,
No matter what you do
"When in the sweet ray's presence thou shalt be
The tear will dry the rose will wither
Abram the patriarch, and David king,
Sinner hear now what I say
my voice, however, came not as I thought.
I'll never get out of this world alive
backward upon his jaws he pushed his beard.
I'll never see that gal of mine
because, ere one return in front of him,
And saved by a girl lying still.
my children in the face. I did not weep,
If you find you're friendless on that weary lonesome road wait for the light to shine
Canto CLII
"Now let Medusa come! We 'll turn him thus
Are you walkin and a-talkin with the lord?
through all Caí¬na, but thou 'lt never find
where there's no quest
'gainst me inflamed the minds of every one;
AN KICKS HIS HEELS UP TO THE SKY
another I beheld, as red as blood,
Shoutin' get up the oxens
because all speech would be of small avail.
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ GOES THAT BUSY LITTLE PEST
from human minds in that first world of ours,
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you...
lost both his ears, with face still lowered, said:
As though his heart would break
who pregnant was with thee, indignant soul!
And my hair turns whiter than snow
down from the place at which one buckles cloaks.
BUT THEIRS A FLY THAT'S A LIVEN RIGHT
"My Teacher," I replied, "I 'm more assured
I watched my dream world crumble like clay
while southward now the nights pursue their way;
If it was rainin' gold I wouldn't stand a chance
her harlot eyes from Caesar's dwelling-place,
Why sometimes when we'd stay away till one or two or three
for thee I know, all filthy though thou be!"
And crave the love
of Launcelot, and how love o'erpowered him;
Oh the day we met, I went astray
the coin on which the Baptist's form is stamped;
You have no right to be the judge to criticize and condemn
that period of my life, when each should strike
Wherever you lead me, I'm willin' to go
"Have pity on me," I cried out to him,
There's be no pain or sorrow, no tears will e'er be shed
me worthy of this, nor I nor others deem.
I know I'd still want you.
and courteous thou, that didst at once obey
One you say, and ten I see
and fight; even such became those filthy faces
In my dreams you're still my only darlin'
if on their dungheap any burgeon still,
Her children safe from harm throughout the years tand then she went to sleep
for which the maid Camilla died of wounds,
Should you go first and I remain to walk the road alone
experience of that world behind the sun
As we pay tribute to one of the greatest of all time Bob Wills
and said: "Off yonder, thou malicious bird!"
You're just in time to miss the boat
Canto CLIII
I well perceived he was a Messenger
Ev'rybody's crazy 'bout somebody else
and make his will and give it legal form."
You sing loud and I'll sing louder tonight we're settin' the woods on fire
I entered on the wild and arduous course.
But it gives you misery
and each is swathed by that wherewith he burns."
You are on my lonely mind
Justice inspired my high exalted Maker;
I told them all we were meant for each other
sails o'er it so, that opposite it hangs;
And I stare at the water so deep
that e'er the lower was my steady foot.
The child was unhurt and my neighbor cried out:
"whate'er thou be, or shade, or very man!"
To take her into town
but after I had reached a mountain's foot,
Weeping as they lay my darling
Cancelled therein was every former aspect;
I've fetched your saddle home.
afraid to tell of without further proof;
I walked up the steps and I peeked in the door
and both my parents were of Lombardy,
But when they lifted his head they found he was dead
as thou hast said, to land upon the shore?"
Just call me up sweet mama and we'll go steppin' out
Unless thou comest to increase the vengeance
A lad stood alone in tears
their reason to their sensual appetite.
For always when we'd step aside she'd call and we'd reply
I, of His mercy, am so made by God,
HOW CAN YOU TURN AWAY FROM HIS SIDE,
I found one such of you, that, for his deeds,
KAW-LIGA, was a lonely Indian never went nowhere
my fellows by this little speech of mine,
There just ain't nobody knows what I go through
refuse not my request to linger here
When I know you don't love me
By this tree's uncouth roots, I swear to you,
Never again will I knock on your door
of those that from the heavens had rained, who, vexed,
And just how many tears are shed
And even as cranes move on and sing their lays,
oh! lordy! guess I'm never gonna lose,
remove for me the hard veils on my face,
Simple tunes are hard to sing
I 'd have thee swallow now my thought of her.
When time goes crawling by
Canto CLIV
The other, who behind me treads the sand,
We wanted wealth to call our own
he told me thereupon, "whose name is Crete,
To Canaan's land I'm on my way
the moment he receives the mortal blow,
I hate to think it's all over
has been in pain with us, and with our mates
A moonlit path that only she would know
is wholly vain, and we, if others bring
If you will listen
behind us: "Stay your feet, O ye that run
With your dying breath
and standing up erect, my rested eyes
What can i do, where can i go
with others who had heard him by rebound.
Make my way among the crowd
Then Francis came for me, when I was dead;
When you left I hung my head down and I cried
with his malicious goadings, did no more.
You told me that our love was true
between the well and that hard, high wall's base,
For years I've lived without a meaning
And I said: "Teacher, wait now for me here,
I'll have a new home of glory eternal
like one whom inward anger overcomes.
You're nice to me when there's no one else around
back to the place where silent is the sun.
She left LA this mornin' burnin' up the right of way
Then lo, a serpent hurled himself at one,
says if only they be faithful, they'll soon be comin' long.
The color cowardice brought out on me,
Sweetheart, remember when your world gets lonesome
About strange punishments must I make verses,
That old log train
since from the mountain's summit, whence it moved
Yes I knew the day I lost you
tusked Ciriatto, too, and Graffiacane,
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
who foully with Montagna dealt, there make,
I told her that I'd spend the rest of my days
to one who to the world would e'er return,
Don't forget his darkness just before the break of dawn wait for the light to shine
upon his level there; but held my head
Then bows his head that his shame he might hide
But tell me: at the time of tender sighs,
I've sent your saddle home.
I think that he had risen upon his knees.
If you're lovin' me like i'm lovin' you
Canto CLV
a region in the middle of the fen,
And hold you just the way I used to do
Though I was on the summit of the arch
His Garments were sackled, all tattered and torn
and new tormented ones, where'er I move,
Poor ol' KAW-LIGA, he never got a kiss
My flesh had hardly been made bare of me,
On the past let's close the door
Why climbst thou not the Mountain of Delight,
Where the cotton grows and the suwanee flows,
"Spread we the nets," he cried, "that I may take,
They say the road of love is long
I 'd be, hadst thou already been obeyed;
We'll go and lose them blues
thought it advisable for us to leave.
Will you move to this Heavenly Home.
And he made answer: "That was Fra Gomita,
Ever since the day you set me free
then at the fourth it made her stern go up,
I made a mistake, dear, by tellin' you lies
free from all torment in this world of woe,"
Today I passed you on the street
than one is like the other, if beginning
Colorado and Nevada through the deserts burnin' door
it doth not seem that thee I ever saw.
'Cause that's the life I believe, He meant for me
the first of Genesis, must people needs
You're not made out of candy
nor tired of holding me in his embrace,
To spend eternity
according to what poets hold for truth,
Can't you hear the Blessed Saviour Callin' You?
thou canst already see what is expected,
Straight is the gate and narrow the way
if thou descend so far, thou mayst behold them.
YOU KILLED ALL THE LOVE I EVER HAD.
but, as I told him, his own spitefulness
I know you're alone with your pride dear
Then, having raised my brows a little higher,
But I don't take no one's advice
now from the flames, now from the heated soil.
WALKED MY GAL HOME TO THE DOOR, AND ASKED HER FOR A KISS,
and then I heard the dread tower's lower door
Let's lollygag and smooch and love
that they with measure used no money there.
But that won't worry me
and pointed out by name, a thousand shades
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
Canto CLVI
spindles and shuttles, to become diviners;
If sugar seems sweet then you ought to meet
of this superfluous matter, gave the face
We'll let bygones be forgotten souvenirs
there 'll be for that a worthier soul than I.
down behind the trees and the moon is slowly rising
which he had spoiled behind. He then began:
I heard that lonesome whistle blow
If thou wouldst know who those two near thee are,
And he let you keep and love it til your hearts were bigger grown
the citizens of our divided town;
Later on, swap my mon, get me a pirogue
a sad, and, after, of a grateful gift.
It won't matter with me
the thighs and legs, the belly and the chest
The judge will give me the 'lectric chair
by the great torments which on divers sides
They pierced his side and then his feet
for which thou didst not fear to seize by fraud,
They need a helpin' hand.
their old refrain; and after they had reached us,
The fire fell from Heaven, I fell to the floor
but said, in opposition to the rest:
If you go to the city then you will find me there
with thine own rage consume thyself within!
For the words said, Mother is gone.
nor yet am I, sad soul, the only one,
No-bod-o-dy lonesome for me.
upon their unreal bodies which seem real.
Are you walkin and a-talkin with the lord?
if it were not that conscience reassures me,
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain.
I answered him: "Are you here, Ser Brunetto?"
Each night when the pale moon is shining
which my veracious Leader promised me;
Faded love and winter roses sprinkled with a lonely tear
now from the flames, now from the heated soil.
On her little face was a look of despair,
Oft did that reading cause our eyes to meet,
Honky Tonkin', Honey Baby
beneath the veil of my mysterious lines!
Well, you're just in time to turn around
To the request, however, which thou makest
Death may be lingering near.
to make one of these weary spirits rest."
I prayed in my heart I would never be found
just at the thick part of the hips, my Leader
He still had the dolly, that she used to love
Canto CLVII
it happens that another scurries off.
One time too many I'd rubbed him wrong and he evened up the score
O Power of God, how truly just thou art,
Every morning
even so went that one down across the sand.
And you're at your journey's end
and in his actions how severe he seemed,
Well I'm nobody's sugar daddy now
Now, Reader, of a new sport shalt thou hear!
Who ran a log train
the title which the voice of one proclaimed,
No-bod-o-dy lonesome for me.
The other sank, and then rose doubled up;
No matter where you wander, darlin'
and led thee from the presence of the beast,
Is it any wonder that his face is red
E'er to a truth that hath a falsehood's face
But honey among tigers you'd be queen
and then the trench was clearly shown to me;
When I know you don't love me
whereat he slightly raised his brows, and said:
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ
whereat, so great the anger mastering them,
Although a million teardrops start to flow
and all the greater pain, which goads to wailing.
He'll ne'er know my name nor my face
He fell on this side out of Heaven; whereat,
For years I've lived without a meaning
another, coiling, tied his arms together,
But deep inside the sorrow shows
the bottom of the grey, malignant slopes.
That always when we got back home we'd find her waitin' there
He left her there with child, and all alone;
In life and love, I've been a failure
as smoke doth in the air, or foam in water.
More precious than diamonds and gold
another I beheld, as red as blood,
Roly Poly eats a hard day dinner it takes lots of strenght to run and play
Into the fourth ditch we descended thus,
Left her in that lonely church yard,
do thou, then, strip it from us now.' Thereat,
Little girl, if you're feeling low
not understanding what is answered them,
Ready to live in Paradise
I thereupon arose, and showed myself
And never comin' back
be this enough to know of this first ditch,
A lawyer proved I wasn't born
Canto CLVIII
"It seldom comes to pass that one of us
So remember they're your brothers
like one whom other cares constrain and gnaw,
says if only they be faithful, they'll soon be comin' long.
wherein the boiled were crying out aloud.
Take my advice or you'll curse the day
for I could not, such pity stirs my heart!"
I really learned the meaning of living and loving I've been down that road before
denying that He is, by blasphemy,
If you want a good gal to stay around
that have the power of doing injury;
The beachcomber's waitin' for the ride. (tide)
I was a poet, and of that just man,
Then give thanks for all your blessin's
but I would surely have been overcome;
No use to sit at home and fine
and in her painful anguish had perceived
And to those who weep death comes cheap these men with broken hearts
along so wild a road, bestow on us
But when they lifted his head they found he was dead
as that which I beheld in two death-pale
I've just told Mama goodbye
might anger him who warned me to be brief,
Where the soul........never dies.
when up at last, that I could go no further;
We opened up the underworld to the ones we loved so well
The latter streaked their faces with their blood,
And then I heard her whisper
The world allows no fame of them to live;
And see her love turn into sympathy
from one of those ark-tombs; hence I, in fear,
I'll just set back and watch you,
"Our going down from here must be delayed,
I'll always keep your picture it means so much to me
of those that from the heavens had rained, who, vexed,
It was nothing of course
Ne'er were there any in the world so swift
And temptation comes your way
if he had only had his groin cut off
Some friends of mine asked me to go out on a huntin' spree
When I had heard those sorely troubled souls,
Lord, I've been waitin' too long
My thoughts, by reason of the present brawl,
Left my darlin' alone,
nor ev'n the bounden love which should have cheered
I hear the children laughing out with glee
But none the less his language gave me fear,
Thank God for all the mountains and the seas
Canto CLIX
the first time I was grieved on thy account.
LORD THEY'RE KILLIN' ME, I MEAN THEM LOW DOWN BLUES.
beneath, for I 'm for more of them returning
In this world I'm left to wander
As frogs before the hostile water-snake
But now you are gone it's over and so
to weep? Awake they were, and now the hour
And Jesus shall come to claim His own
About strange punishments must I make verses,
You've grown cold and no longer care for me
along the gulley of the ditch, for none
Won't you come back again and break mine
or chance; but as I walked among the heads,
THEN IT'S USELESS TO YOU, IF YOU'VE STRAYED FROM THE FOLD,
for Branca d' Oria is not dead as yet,
BEFORE HE DIED, HE FAINTLY CRIED,
words caused by pain, accents of anger, voices
If you go to the city then you will find me there
that more ferocious in his looks he seems."
And you can call me any time
those whom the wind drives, those the rain beats down,
You looked me up I turned you down
I swooned away as though about to die,
"The bad girl who lived down the street."
and who, as at his mirror, looks at Rome.
To claim the Saviour for your own
of Her whose lovely eyes see everything,
He didn't talk like he thought much of me.
their color changed, and gnashed their teeth together,
Maybe I could do better if I reached for a star,
at thy sweet will dost speak!" they all replied.
I've been a fool about you, for way too long
or whether they have wholly gone from it;
We don't get nearer or further or closer
But that fiend, who was with my Leader talking,
Then you'll be ready to go home
I 'd gladly have these eyes of mine enjoy
And I won't be home no more
the way is long and difficult the road,
There's nothin' as sweet as my baby
No path was this for one who wore a cloak,
That you'll be back before so long
that, if a kindly star, or aught that's better,
This rockin' chair money, honey
But by the Power, through whom I move my steps
I guess it just don't matter now
Soon as my Leader and I were in the boat,
Sweetheart, remember when your world gets lonesome
Canto CLX
for each in rivalry ran back within.
You wouldn't stay away half as much as you do
foreseeing, she decides, and carries on
A slave too long to a heart of stone
with cheerful face, whence I was comforted,
I leave you the night, to solemnly pray
is Azzolino; the other which is blond,
I'll tell you right now I've had enough of that
the souls of those whom anger overcame;
But she don't care about me
if from the hospitals of Val di Chiana,
Weeping as they lay my darling
He then moved on, and I behind him kept.
Honey do you have to love so doggone rough
were foreordained unto the holy place,
Now my gal's short and stubby,
for Christian were all enemies of his,
Where the soul of man never dies
was gleaming bright, as I perceived at once,
I watched my dream world crumble like clay
because all speech would be of small avail.
Baby, rock, let's rock on down the line
had caused that work to be performed in vain.
The light shine bright from yer window
Mule that I was, a beast's life, not a man's,
It's headin' for destruction now
nor for a tongue that says "˜mamma' and "˜dad';
Rootie Tootie, she's my Wednesday gal.
And ever without resting was the dance
And while the organ plays I love you truly
the execution of so great a charge,
Sinner man won't you stop now and pray
for I should then fear neither claw nor hook!"
If the night is dark, you will soon see the day
that lust she rendered lawful in her laws,
Those who seek it will recieve it, mercy at the Savior's feet.
erect, as if he had great scorn for Hell.
I just can't go - you win again.
I moved around, and with a steady gaze
for right there was my honey,
While peering with mine eyes down there, I saw
Praise the Lord I saw the light.
from Circe, who concealed me near Gaeta
God bless His Holy name
rub on the soil of Hell thy living feet.
You wore out a brand new trunk
both how and why I 'd have thee hear from me.
Some were propers some were kings and some were masters of the arts
Canto CLXI
his back remained completely stripped of skin.
just waiting by your telephone
thou that, perhaps, wilt shortly see the sun,
My sister married a brakeman and it ain't no joke,
shall Jason be, of whom in Maccabees
I knew someday that you would wed another
I left a man from that vicinity;
And before you render a verdict on what this girl has done
taught by thy sister, but is going by,
But then you changed dear, you found someone new
I swear to thee, that through that coarse, dark air
The moon was shinin' there
Within that mountain stands a great Old Man,
I met a man and he was blind
said I, "and whom a redder flame is sucking?"
A House Without Love is not a home.
and grant the favor of some further talk.
Through valleys, o'er mountains and plains
Peschiera next, a fair and mighty fortress,
You'll walk the floor
who set me at my former sins again;
I'll have a new home of glory eternal
into his neck behind, that, dragging him,
There sat your picture all alone
dost go alive with such respectful speech,
When I can't get you off of my mind.
He, in whose footprints thou dost see me tread,
Well I'm in love I'm in love with a beautiful gal
Here liveth piety when wholly dead
Make up your mind to like me and to be my turtledove
than thou believest are the sepulchers.
Or stood and watched with helpless hands while the heart inside you dies
Round, therefore, is the girdle which remains
There'll come a time in your life dear
those whom the wind drives, those the rain beats down,
No tear-........... dimmed eyes
they seemed the wails of wretched, tortured men.
Gathered 'round him all his buddies
there the Palladium's penalty is paid."
We met in the springtime when blossoms unfold
on high, it seems that it is still believed
To supply our every need
thou understand me, let it profit thee."
in a long, long while
"and who at times dost pincers make of them,
If the night is dark, you will soon see the day
but with them there he did not long remain,
You're just in time to be too late
Canto CLXII
If anger to ill-will be joined, they 'll come
Then you're just like the dirt beneath their feet
From Val di Magra Mars draws forth a bolt
Last night as I lay dreamin'
These wretched souls, who never were alive,
We'll be strong enough to face our last goodbye
Coarse hail, and snow, and dirty-colored water
With just a teardrop on a rose.
I think a spirit sprung from mine own blood
Boy you can't win no matter if you're right
An old fame in the world proclaims them blind,
Everyday you'll know I'll miss you
who fell down headlong from the walls at Thebes.
When your soul is lost in sin
there crouched a dragon with wide opened wings;
I gave up my friends, I left my home
no help; their nails kept scraping down their scabs,
Got nothin' to kill to put in the smokehouse
it had not cracked even at its very edge.
Everybody says you let me down
Among the thieves five such as these I found,
Should you go first and I remain to finish with the scroll
have I your doings and your honored names
Rootie Tootie, (Rootie Tootie)
"I fast not from a previous sight of him."
Only hold her hand and say goodbye
but to the thicket keep them ever close."
All I do is sit and sigh, oh Lord
If to know who I am concern thee so,
Then suddenly I got that old time feeling
from which the Roman's noble seed went forth;
So baby, if you wanna shine
of infants and of women and of men.
Now I know that she's not like her and yet she might have been
I said: "If, Teacher, thou hide not thyself
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart?
When we had gone so far ahead, that now
Ev'ry thing I loved, I lost, dear
Let, then, the beasts of Fií¨solí« make litter
Before it is too late
See Helen, for whose sake so long a time
When the seals are broken and names are read aloud
and is no less than half a mile across.
Cut like a knife
when we two countenances still beheld
And Plea-ease - don't whisper sweetheart
When, just before the morning, I awoke,
DID YOU EVER SIT STRAIGHT UP IN BED
Canto CLXIII
this flame would stay without another quiver;
Til my body's just a shell
"O ye that in a single flame are two,
I miss her most of all
When once its water gathers head to run,
To take her into town
From o'er a thousand springs, I trow, 'tween Garda
I never thought in this old world a fool could fall so hard
Hence, that to him the Opponent of all ill
When I know you don't love me
And yet that Lady's face who ruleth here
You've hurt me but no one will ever know
I saw that Brutus who drove Tarquin out,
It's the one regret I'll carry with me to my grave
to let the scourged pass through, my Leader said:
You've grown cold and no longer care for me
And he cried out: "Dost thou stand there already,
There's somethin' o'er the hill that I gotta see
was now releasing from their weary toil
Where the soul........never dies.
"I shall not gallop after thee, in case
Built it on hope and the love I thought was true
unhelped by Will Divine and favoring fate?
Thru tears I watch young lovers
to flee from him, what is on this side seen
The angels came for her, at the first fall of snow
Gualandi with Sismondi and Lanfranchi.
Out on the corner standin' so bold
of guilt rolled by, and great Achilles see,
She leaves Cincinnati headin' down that Dixie line
there was no lamentation, saving sighs
All your dreams of heaven will come true on that day
"Thy trouble, Ciacco," I replied to him,
Last night I dreamed of heaven my eternal home sweet home
it seemed as if their nimble legs were wings.
Yipsy-doodle, (Rootie Tootie)
as it is wont to do in certain cases,
Get on your knees and pray.
of traitor to thee in thy castle-towns,
I'm going away where, life is eternal
my fellows by this little speech of mine,
We'll meet up in heaven, someday.
whereby and how did Love concede to you
I'm free and ready, so we can go steady.
when here another cried: "What ails thee, Bocca?
and water.... cool, clear water.
a greedy, envious, overweening folk;
Be careful of stones that you throw.
Canto CLXIV
was courteous, considering the great result
All the happiness I've ever known
than these, there were no human spirits saved."
Bringin' my darlin' back home,
Therefore get up! O'ercome thy troubled breath
In your loveless mansion on the hill
and fit to cover him and me. Renewed
I patted his shoulder, my feelings to hide
him to this punishment that fault condemns;
I kept my vows you left me all alone
my heart, before the tears freeze up again."
If you're dreamin' of me like i'm dreamin' of you
Through them am I in such a family,
Because it isn't true
"Arch-heretics are with their followers here"
And if it all were true
and though confused my mind, those men could not
And I'll tell you right now honey that ain't all
"Art thou still foolish as the others are?
Out on this river
a free state half, and half a tyranny.
And you sit by yourself and pine
even as a snail doth with its horns; his tongue,
Now I'm so happy no sorrow in sight
Thy fortune hath in store for thee such honor,
I NEED A LITTLE LOVIN', HONEY WON'T YOU HOLD ME TIGHT.
that I believe that they are greatly vexed.
All alone I bear the shame
When I had heard my Leader speak the names
Some were propers some were kings and some were masters of the arts
who go around here raging, tell the truth,
Met my future wife today
so twisted, that the weeping of the eyes
So you fool ev'ry new love you find
makes beckoning signs to them, collects them all,
BUT YOU HAVE TREATED ME SO BAD,
In each mouth, as a heckle would have done,
Jesus is calling, calling night and day
and who, as at his mirror, looks at Rome.
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart?
I, in like manner, shall down yonder fall,
Something Got A Hold Of Me (Praise God)
"that, as thou seest, I have hither come,
When God dips His love in my heart
once felt, and took my Leader. Virgil then,
Now you can go but there's no need to hurry
left the place empty here, and upward rushed."
Out there in that lonesome graveyard
Canto CLXV
I do not think that there was greater fear
I'll gas up my hot rod stoker we'll get hotter than a poker
Behold then, coming toward us in a boat,
The durn rabbits - they got the turnip greens
thus go together, as they did in wrath;
Today I passed you on the street
of swarthy bitches, ravenous and fleet
Got in trouble had to roam
It seems, if well I hear, that ye behold
If you're meant for me like i'm meant for you
Why is it that ye kick against the Will,
But I let a gal make a fool of me
And I replied to him as I was bidden.
For he had just said goodbye
And thereupon, if I became perplexed,
There he was lying but he felt no pain
and cried: "This is the one, for he speaks not;
With your dying breath
be recommended thee; I ask no more."
As long as the sun is in the sky
who, while its people slept, unlocked Faenza."
And I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Livin'.
than on the other, I know not of him,
I know we'll both be all alone
To me then my good Teacher: "Dost not ask
Its gotta stop, I don't mean plea-ease
so may I from this ill and worse escape,
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ GOES THAT BUSY LITTLE PEST
"O Gií como" it said, "da Sant'Andrea,
On the dixie cannonball, on the dixie cannonball,
had named the place, nor fondness for my son,
I stand on the banks of the river
to place them in the fifth trench as its servants,
And brother if I stepped on a worn out dime
who all wept very sorely, while on each
From the Dear Saviour; who's pleading today
Thus goes his way, and there abandons me,
This story happened
my heart, that dear and kind paternal face
Left my gal and left my home
We turned our backs upon the woeful vale
It looks to me like I been cheated out of my rib
But still I did not weep, nor did I answer
And you know you caused it all by telling lies
when we attained that narrow passage-way,
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain.
it pleased my Teacher to reveal to me
Where the soul of man never dies
Canto CLXVI
But tell me if among these passing people
Said the little paper boy, there on the street
up yonder, in a vale I lost my way,
Her love like the leaves now has withered and gone.
of misery; and this thy Leader knows.
Lord I tried and tried, to keep her satisfied
Goodness Divine, and loose the tangled knot."
Our story's so old again has been told
And that one: "O my son, be not displeased
A lawyer proved I wasn't born
the middle one, who gazes at his breast,
and carry on
he heeded with so glad a look throughout
My darlin' I just worship you,
both of the world, and of the vice and worth
Although a million teardrops start to flow
There people were with slow and serious eyes,
Ready to live in Paradise
When in the presence of my Lord again,
Her personality made me want her
and grant the favor of some further talk.
When I get to Glory, I'm gonna sing, sing, sing.
as did my Teacher o'er that selvage-bank,
Some glad day I'm going home
and Rachel, too, for whom he did so much,
and mama would sing
and as we followed up the lonely path
came the day you said you'd be my own
who stopped there in the ditch to look at me,
Wait for the light to shine wait for the light to shine
for other shelter was there none. I now "
I'll tell then I found true love with another
wander so far from that which is its wont,
I'm lost on the river
reverberated through the starless air;
All day long
And as the stream, which is the first that eastward
We'll go and lose them blues
Gluttons
You're nice to me when there's no one else around
As, when a heavy fog is breathed abroad,
Travelin' down a lonely highway
and he, aware, cried out: "Run to the pass!
And we walk the streets of gold
which, gathering them together, cuts them off.
But now your conscience bothers you
No cask, indeed, by loss of middle-board
We live in two different worlds, dear
Canto CLXVII
That dense air he kept moving from his face
NOW THE TOUGHEST HIDE GROWS ON A MULE
Then "Tell him not to slip away," I said,
More precious than diamonds and gold
"a crag there is, which at the great round wall
For another to be in my place.
and said: "Say whatsoe'er thou wilt to them."
And we'd listen to the waters
I think he thought I thought that all those voices
Those who seek it will recieve it, mercy at the Savior's feet.
rose at his side as far up as his chin;
The well's gone dry and I have to tote the water
along a ditch which from it takes its shape.
The old cow's standin' by the Bull Durham sign
and I perceived behind us a black devil
Her smile was like an angel fair
eternal, cursí¨d, cold and burdensome;
All I need is a bride who want's a big-hearted groom
for calking up again the unsound ships,
'N' the gambler's still waitin' for that Ace in the hole
let him assist my memory, which still
Where the soul of man never dies
who gave the youthful king the ill support.
Some people struggle for riches
because it had a fen on every side.
There's a poor old mother at home
the town, whose name is Dis, is drawing near
There's a mighty battle coming and it's well now on its way.
and more, whom love had from our life cut off.
Towards the center of your heart I'll be bound
And one of them, who had his small white pouch
In the mountains far away
for he had set before him in his van
Now I'm so happy no sorrow in sight
the other one who yonder goes away, "
On the Tennessee Border
Among my menials he must needs descend,
FOR ALL OF OUR WRONGS, THEN WE MUST PAY,
Then, as it pleased him, I embraced his neck,
Then you have a big policeman drag me back home
than on the other, I know not of him,
Now, You're Gonna Change or I'm a-gonna leave.
often shall I commend thee unto Him.'
There's been troubles and tribulation, there'll be sorrow and despair.
its back and breast, as well as both its sides,
Ready to live in Paradise
and he ceased not from plunging headlong down
even though you proved to be untrue
Canto CLXVIII
whene'er it be, unto the blessí¨d folk;
The folks would come runnin'
The people that are lying in the tombs,
But I know a man that didn't try to get along,
of a large tomb, whereon I saw a scroll
But what good does it do
and he, who, curious, had but little sense,
In life and love, I've been a failure
and took some earth, and with his fists well filled,
Til' I hear an old train rollin' down the line
drew near, I saw our wheeling and descent.
There's a tear in my beer
That is the lowest and the darkest place,
I'm Free because you wanted it that way
give thee the promise of so much that's good?"
Whom God has called back to the fold
to place them in the fifth trench as its servants,
And Plea-ease - don't let me love you
so thick a veil in winter for its course,
If the things I said was to break your heart
the Leopard with the brightly colored hide.
Can you face them and say
Ivy was never rooted to a tree
Of old age and a blushing young bride
"Behold the wild beast with the pointed tail,
I've traveled it long enough;
and he ceased not from plunging headlong down
Just a kid actin' smart
thou understand me, let it profit thee."
Will you please make up your mind what you want me to do
O happy he whom He thereto elects!"
But it's sure better than no house at all
The other, who behind me treads the sand,
And so my heart is paying now for things I didn't do
that with their kingdom shattered was their king;
All these blues that I've found
But whereas fraud is man's peculiar evil,
Someday you'll call my name and I won't answer
of ladies and their knights of olden times,
And then you left me 'lone and blue
experience of the measureless Briareus."
I wouldn't let my dear saviour in
This latter kind of fraud would seem to kill
For someday down that lonely road you'll hear me call your name
the title which the voice of one proclaimed,
Will you move to this Heavenly Home.
he said: "Ask him again, if more thou wish
They need a helpin' hand.
Canto CLXIX
and breast are of the purest silver, then,
I saw the light I saw the light
of that disgusting and dishevelled wench,
Where there will be no parting hand
the Harpies, feeding then upon its leaves,
On an island far away
his fellows were, of greatest note and rank.
Than to live in this world in a house of gold
Ne'er with more colors in its woof and warp
If you'll follow Him each day
and I, who longed to look about and see
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you.
the peasant, lacking provender, gets up,
And there as I listened, my eyes filled with tears
formed in a circle by great broken rocks,
So if you're ever sad and lonely
who so deserving was of reverence!
Can't you hear the Blessed Saviour Callin' You?
We 'll drag them with us here, and then our bodies
And smile don't regret but live and forget
he had attained the other butting place.
Should you go first and I remain to finish with the scroll
From him we had departed now, when two
The Devil's Train will take you
And one, who heard my Tuscan speech, cried out
Ev'rybody's yearnin' for somebody else
as Ephialtes quickly shook at this.
I'm Free At Last from love and all its' worries
I wished to tell him: "See that thou embrace me!"
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
I sorrowed then, and now again I sorrow,
Once dear I thought
And he: "If I were made of leaded glass,
She asked me how long I'd remain
encircle castles for the walls' protection,
Now it's a shame the way she keeps a good man broke.
not heeding in himself his lofty office
While she's circlin' through the canyons, can't you see that mountain stream
Not ev'n Maremma has so many snakes,
My sister married a brakeman and it ain't no joke,
we ever reached the lofty tower's foot,
I was a fool to wander and a-stray
art crouching, safely now regain my side."
And my heart fell at your feet
like these, and took such executioners
You don't feel love
who so deserving was of reverence!
Last night I dreamed of heaven and I saw my mother there
Canto CLXX
Now canst thou, son, behold the short-lived cheat
No matter how I struggle and strive
as in the world it was their wont to hunt.
You've never walked in that man's shoes or saw things through his eyes
forever in that timelessly dark air,
You're Window Shoppin' that's all.
but wisdom, love and power shall be his food,
Why when I married you, you were such a meek little thing
up to the river I abstained from speech.
Your daddy's mad; He's done got pee-eeved
nay, on arriving I sat down at once.
But some glad day I'm going home
When there, he gently set his burden down,
Cry, oh, lord.
And he to me: "Upon the filthy waves
Everything I love is gone
a noise like nothing other than a wind,
The ones it hurts the most
whene'er it be, unto the blessí¨d folk;
Up there I know, there'll be no pain
And now the woeful sounds of actual pain
Ohio and Kentucky Tennessee and Alabam, the delta state of
but that complete experience may be giv'n him,
Yes, thy burdens are greater than mine.
I 'll carry with me to thy lasting shame."
When I'd crawl back if I could
So wholly wast thou then intent on him
My lips could tell a lie, but my heart would know
who now were cooked inside their crusted hides;
If they could but understand
their juncture left no mark that could be seen.
We drift like a wave from the shore
Therefore get up! O'ercome thy troubled breath
Then I began to wonder, if I had made a blunder,
the falconer say: "Alas, thou comest down!"
Though our paths in life have parted
This side and that, upon the dark, stone floor,
YOU KILLED ALL THE LOVE I EVER HAD.
and in proportion to it were his other bones;
The more I learn to care for you, the more we drift apart
No green leaves there, but leaves of gloomy hue;
At little Sue's expense
My Leader thereupon cried out to me:
WELL MY FRIEND IT WON'T SAVE, YOUR POOR WICKED SOUL.
and writhed all over; then Fra Catalí n,
I'm so thankful for each golden hour of happiness
unto like pain." Thereat he spoke no more.
She asked me how long I'd remain
Canto CLXXI
thou art, and that I part not from thy will
Can't you hear the Blessed Saviour Callin' You?
who from his throat now had his tongue cut out,
now my key, it don't fit no more
My mother placed me out to serve a lord,
AN NEVER EVEN MOVE A HAIR
no smooth and straight, but gnarled and twisted, twigs;
Death may be lingering near.
to tell me who he is, before he "˜skips'!"
It's hard to know another's lips will kiss you
Some time had now from early morn elapsed,
My woman run away with another man
see that thou tell the people about us."
To see my Uncle Bill and sorta pass the time away
I found that I was in a gloomy wood,
Will you move to that beautiful city
They all were shouting: "At Filippo Argenti!"
Why don't you mind your own business
alloweth none to pass along her way,
Humpty-dumpty, (Rootie Tootie)
and by disprizing Nature and His Goodness;
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
whene'er they reach the two points of the ring,
So slide it on over (move it on over)
who can, if ever I attain to her.
KAW-LIGA, that poor ol' wooden head.
that these sinned not; and though they merits have,
He'll ne'er know my name nor my face
the human species, and the place, and time,
If you're lovin' me like i'm lovin' you
be making ready now to claw my skin."
Ev'rybody's thinkin' 'bout somebody else
ought surely to have answered one of them.
But now you are gone it's over and so
stand all erect and open on their stems;
The beachcomber's waitin' for the ride. (tide)
toward going on, by reason of thy words,
I watched my dream world crumble like clay
He shall not feed on either land or wealth,
And drag you right down in disgrace
shalt thou have us, than while we cross the swamp."
just waiting by your telephone
Without another word he fled away;
And I'm lo-o-onesome
was at their feet sucked up by loathsome worms.
I started rolling down that lost highway
"Less shame would wash away a greater fault
If you're happy with me like i'm happy with you
Canto CLXXII
till through a rounded opening I beheld
If you'll be a baby to me
well do I know the road; so be at rest!
When you left I hung my head down and I cried
under whose king the world of old was pure.
A House Without Love is not a home.
as, wheresoe'er it turn, thine eye reveals.
May you never be alone like me.
yawneth a well exceeding wide and deep,
Are you walkin and a-talkin with the lord?
and said: "Off yonder, thou malicious bird!"
It seemed like the whole world was lost
Then Calcabrina, angered by the flout,
My yesterdays haunt me, my weary heart cries
encircled by high walls, and all around
There sat your picture all alone
a general minister and guide, to change,
I'm Sorry For You, My Friend.
as if attacked by fever or by sleep.
For He spoke of this great battle that is coming by and by.
and walking to and fro, laments, poor wretch,
Daniel in the lion's den,
Such bulwarks as, to keep the sea away,
HONEY DO YOU LOVE ME, HUH, HONEY DO YOU LOVE ME, HUH,
that I began as one who had been freed:
And then I went to meet her
then Master Adam smote him with his arm,
She leaves Cincinnati headin' down that Dixie line
But now to woe more piteous let 's descend;
Another love before my time made your heart sad and blue
and took ten paces on the very edge,
(So) never again will I knock on your door
began to quiver with a murmuring sound,
I got the ho-on-ky tonk blues.
that most men from his secrets I withheld;
He fell in love with an Indian maid over in the antique store
for Mont' Aperti, why dost thou molest me?"
Well I'm nobody's sugar daddy now
of this soft place, and our burned, shrivelled faces
You've hurt me but no one will ever know
't is now abandoned like a thing outworn.
I Told A Lie To My Heart.
ne'er with all Ethiopia did she show,
So try to repent and ask for forgiveness
of a large tomb, whereon I saw a scroll
She stopped and I knew right away
for hair they had small serpents and horned snakes,
Now at last you've gone and left me
Canto CLXXIII
for he had set before him in his van
When old Gabriel blows his trumpet
he of the swollen paunch, "and bitter be
Lonely years of tears and sorrow
we came to where the boatman cried aloud
Tootsie-wootsie, (Rootie Tootie)
Jí copo Rusticí¹cci, Arrigo and Mosca,
Poor ol' KAW-LIGA, he don't know what he missed
informed thereby of what had happened, said:
I'm lonesome and O how I feel
then each turned back, when through his own half-ring
My clothes are ragged, no shoes on my feet"
"Since he is still, lose not thy chance; but speak,
'Neath a cold gray tomb of stone
my heart, that dear and kind paternal face
How's about cooking somethin' up with me?
which warned men not to sail beyond their bounds;
For he was the one ray of sunshine
ere thou shalt know how heavy that art is.
I never knew i loved you so;
why are they tortured in those several ways?"
You just keep naggin', all the day long
rub on the soil of Hell thy living feet.
Lord I don't know what I'll do
But lightly at the bottom, which devours
There ya have it, friends
Thereat my Leader turned and said: "Now wait;
Whisp'ring the Saviour's name
binding the tears between them, closed them up.
I'll just set back and watch you, while you shed those bitter tears.
if God be angry with them? and, if not,
And watch the fellars in this town
And now, while toward that center we were moving,
I got a little gal that wears her hair up high,
that through my memory it is circling still;
Maybe you were reckless yesterday
"O me, Agnello, what a change is thine!
But I let a gal make a fool of me
was fiercely kicking out with both his feet.
HOW CAN YOU TURN AWAY FROM HIS SIDE,
We therefore to one side of it drew back
Oh don't you know that Jesus died to wash your sins away
one of them, who had recognized me, seizing
But when they lifted his head they found he was dead
If, therefore, I consent to come, I fear
Take my advice or you'll curse the day
for though she breed chelỳdri, jí culi,
And I'd bow my head and cry again
Canto CLXXIV
which soareth like an eagle o'er the rest.
At the break day
These words were wafted down to us from them.
Callin' You?, (Callin' You?)
When I made answer I began: "Alas!
The way I do
Thereat my Leader spoke with so much force,
And the joy within me made my glad heart weep
Then said my Leader: "He 'll not wake again
I can't afford to lose her now
That Lord then, who had brought me thither, said:
Fall down on your knees and pray
that these sinned not; and though they merits have,
I'd like to tell you a story
the wood, I mean, of thickly crowded shades.
I STAYED OUT TOO LATE LAST NIGHT, ON A LITTLE SPREE,
no more; but on mine ears there smote a wail,
I wouldn't let my dear saviour in
where cold the days are for the sinful folk.'
Don't they know on the judgement day
And he to me replied: "I have no knowledge
I was walking in Savannah past a church decayed and dim
is Azzolino; the other which is blond,
Someday you'll be so lonely and blue
that very soon it would have hurt our ears.
Ev'rything's again' me and it's got me down
up in the world by his un-natural son."
And now I'm So Tired Of It All.
since only to devour it doth he strain
Her eyes reflect the nightlife her cheeks they're red with paint
Abram the patriarch, and David king,
But I said, "It won't hurt me I'll just step inside
nor had he any limb that he kept still.
with a manner sort of awkward and countenance grotesque.
could not attain the bottom for the dark;
I know nothing but sorrow
Thou didst not thus when in the other trenches;
The crooner's Just Waitin' to sing
and I was trembling in the eternal cold;
I got the ho-on-ky tonk blues.
that I with both a single purpose formed.
Praise the Lord I saw the light.
bring us and our requests into contempt,
But some glad day I'm going home
and rightly, for among the acid sorbs
It's just a picture from life's other side
chasing the wolf and wolfings toward the mount
We took the night life off the streets and brought it in our own homes
Canto CLXXV
Your knowledge is not able to resist her;
Callin' You?, (Callin' You?)
by vapor from below, which, sticking there,
Never on this earth to meet no more.
are down below, and greater pain assails them.
to water... cool, clear water.
are made as places for baptizing priests;
And so it seemed that night and day we knew a mother's care
And I to him: "If possible it be,
When she passes that Nashville tower you can hear that whistle whine
I was created by the Might divine,
I got a feelin' called the blues, oh Lord
that sped away so swiftly through the air,
NO NOT NOW, (no not now), NO NOT NOW, (no not now),
In the third circle am I, that of rain
And I'm contented just to roam
't is now abandoned like a thing outworn.
I can't even spell my name, my heads in such a spin
a free state half, and half a tyranny.
I saw all the joys of life fade far away
And I, who was intensely gazing there,
Where the soul........never dies
may quit thee for it in the world above,
And while the organ plays I love you truly
That scourged one thought that he could hide himself
I saw the light I saw the light
the section where they are presents;
Lord my head looks like an old chop block
even as my Leader had commanded me,
On a hillside far away
now to all recognition makes them dark.
To rock on away from here
"If perfectly fulfilled had been my prayer,"
God only knows how it hurts me
While thus he spoke, that sinner, too, made off;
Six more miles to the graveyard,
he made his belly scrape the solid ground.
The cashier said with a grin,
along a path which to a valley leads,
I seen the crabs and the fishes - Doin' the be-bop-bee.
and that, which ran not back, but was retained,
But you think that you're above me
and one of such as these am I myself.
And scat right back to my pappy's farm
There is a devil here behind, who thus
Well Lord I got 'em,
perfidious traitor; for true news of thee
There'll be no more strife
Canto CLXXVI
He here bewails the money of the French;
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
see how he writhes, and utters not a word!
tell her that I've met my saviour
Through me one goes into the town of woe,
And scat right back to my pappy's farm
I saw his arms withdraw into his armpits,
And she thinks I'm "purty", too
He had not finished telling me his plan,
BEFORE HE DIED, HE FAINTLY CRIED,
The other one, meanwhile, the great-souled man,
Hotsy-totsy (Rootie Tootie)
they seemed the wails of wretched, tortured men.
You knew I worshipped you, right from the start
And I again: "But where are Phlegethon
Tell me where you think we're goin'
replied to him: "Tricky indeed am I,
I know nothing but sorrow
by reason of a vague sound issuing thence.
You couldn't forgive me, so you went away
while upward to the top of one great rock
cause I'm crying for you dear
that sped away so swiftly through the air,
I know nothing but sorrow
for though Count Ugolino had the name
AND WAIT AROUND FOR HIM TO LIGHT
the flame departed from us with its grief,
A trusting heart had just been broken
flees hissing through the trench; the other spits
KAW-LIGA - A, just stands there as lonely as can be
which bellows as the sea doth in a storm,
The cigar smoke, and some of these wonderful songs
who from behind were fiercely whipping them.
You're drifting to far from the shore
And in that part through which our nourishment
And now I ain't gonna love you anymore.
my Teacher said, "and see if thou perceive him."
With my sympathy awakened and a wonder quickly grew,
"˜O Lady of virtue, thou through whom alone
'Cause the night shift's waitin' for mornin'
He then returned along the filthy road,
But all of my hopes for treasures
whither, when lost, he went away to die."
When my life here is o'er I'm going home
while others moved about continually.
I just couldn't tell her that I ran away
who had his gorget cut in two by Florence.
How come you find so many faults with me
Canto CLXXVII
and Niccolí², who was the first to find
I seen the crabs and the fishes - Doin' the be-bop-bee.
hence oft it happens that a change occurs.
You take true love - and give the blame
thus saw I coming, uttering cries of pain,
My trial on earth is over now
he said; hence, where thou see'st me, I am lost,
And everlasting joys I'll reap
some compensation, lest our time be lost."
Jesus died for me long ago
because he wished to see too far ahead,
Where the soul........never dies.
gave me this new commission; he is not
Because it isn't true
and furnish matter for the twentieth song
YOU SHAKE YA HEAD AN TWITCH YA NOSE
bowed down and closed, when brightened by the sun,
oh! lordy! guess I'm never gonna lose,
Paris and Tristan see;" and then he showed me,
and look what you have loved me thru.
and very frequently they stun my ears
Just a-Waitin' for the grass to turn green.
and he sets fire to whomsoe'er he meets.
But still you had your way
Then to the Poet I: "Now was there ever
If just a few parted parents
made doglike by the cold; hence frozen ponds
Got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes,
of whose construction, in its place, I 'll speak.
But unless you've made no mistakes in your life
"Briefly shall a reply be made to you.
Moa-oanin' the blues.
because of cold
And be on his way
And he: "I crave the contrary; away
Just another guy on the lost highway
because the Fishes o'er the horizon quiver,
I can't buy no beer.
so likewise with my wearied strength did I;
Paved with all the tribulations
out of the calm into the trembling air;
I got the ho-on-ky tonk blues.
they called it Mantua, with no other lot.
Later on, swap my mon, get me a pirogue
he heeded with so glad a look throughout
Well shut my mouth, i'm a'headin' south, on the dixie cannon-ball
which honors thee and whosoe'er has heard it.'
Dear friend there'll be no sad farewells
Canto CLXXVIII
more quickly than thine inward I receive.
With your dying breath
and then fell down, stretched out in front of him.
'Cause my heart would still want you-ooo-oo
with greater haste I therefore begged the spirit
Are you walkin and a-talkin with the lord?
the middle one, who gazes at his breast,
Got in trouble had to roam
that from an honored enterprise it turns him,
And as I wonder where you are
even so, since from the body of the flame
So now that she is leavin'
with their own selves, nor let them touch the plant,
You only build me up to let me down
an arrow from a bowstring, sped away.
For another to be in my place.
who pregnant was with thee, indignant soul!
I knew the way
to look at me, than at the other foul ones?"
I found myself a'bleedin', and very much a'needin',
and wherefore free and daring art thou not,
And to those who weep death comes cheap these men with broken hearts
and two in one they were, and one in two;
Scoot it on over (move it on over)
A swamp it forms which hath the name of Styx,
There is no end, I can't pretend
one reads; and as to that one his king yielded,
Rome-ian num'rals they're a pain,
dost thou not notice how they gnash their teeth,
At night when I am sad and lonely
The Prince of modern Pharisees, who then
I'm not gonna worry wrinkles in my brow
"Why dost thou mirror thee so much on us?
There's comin' a day when the world shall melt away
"Now tell me, pray, how great the treasure was,
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
that most men from his secrets I withheld;
Just as long as she's with me
The greater horn then of the ancient flame
I tried so hard,my dear,to show that you're my every dream
Then of a sudden standing up, he cried:
We were so happy, darlin' we two
The others, who in working simony
All day I've faced the barren waste
But tell me why thou dost not mind descending
Well, I went upon the mountain - I looked down in the sea
nothing has ever by thine eyes been seen
And the last word led to a divorce
Canto CLXXIX
had through its opening shown me many a moon
What pain He suffered there
Know then, in brief, that clerics were they all,
I told her that I'd spend the rest of my days
Let us leave him alone, nor talk in vain;
Darlin I could never be ashamed of you
and is by nature so malign and guilty,
So why should we try anymore
of Frederick's heart, and he who turned them round
There's no use to pretend
to stand aside." Then we with this safe escort
Never was much fun to me
when we attained that narrow passage-way,
Won't it be so sweet, to rest at Jesus' feet
are evermore before me, nor in vain;
Just like you used to be
for I, who saw it, hardly grant I did.
In the distance hear her moanin' hear her lonesome whistle scream
After the flame had come so near to us,
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
Of naked souls I many flocks beheld,
Hotsy-totsy (Rootie Tootie)
Not otherwise did Tydeus gnaw the temples
And here it is Tuesday, ain't had no news
when single, were more easily put out "
I have the invitation that you sent me
offends God least, and hence receives least blame?
A false goodbye a life is shattered
And as the usurer takes another course,
Worries and fears I claimed for my own
which in the lake-depths of my heart had lasted
I've just told Mama goodbye
a Leopard which, exceeding light and swift,
But she just wouldn't stay
makes them appear so eager to cross over,
And never comin' back
alloweth none to pass along her way,
Now you see these teeth that I ain't got and these knots on my bald head
stoop, then, nor twist thy muzzle. He can still
The moon was shinin' there
Not to seem weak, I talked as on I went;
When we meet our love ones there
so, next, from that one was another born,
And that moonlit pass BY the Alamo
And make it known to Fano's two best men,
When my life here is o'er I'm going home
so shalt thou see that I 'm Capocchio's shade,
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you...
Canto CLXXX
Jason is he, who, by his doughtiness
Are you on the road that leads to wrong
nor shields himself when smitten by the fire.
Ev'rybody's dreamin' about somebody else
That Thaí¯s is, the prostitute, who answered
I know that I would never be this blue
and girds him with his tail as many times,
I started rolling down that lost highway
are doomed those carnal sinners, who subject
Tonight down here in the valley
and has on that side all her hairy skin,
As He hung there all alone
a cave, from which his view was not cut off,
Who ran a log train
Let us not talk of them; but look, and pass!"
For a life of sin I have paid the cost
and landed on the bank its head and chest;
When the ev'nin' train goes by
thine is the fever and the aching head;
No tear-........... dimmed eyes
people were running, nude and terrified,
I'll listen for whistle
far from his lord in angry sullenness;
Then you're just like the dirt beneath their feet
where thou must arm thyself with fortitude!"
Why, oh why do we keep tryin'
and both of these, if one would tell the truth,
Just as long as she's with me
they did not with due worship honor God;
to some poor sinner man
He fell on this side out of Heaven; whereat,
A picture from the past came slowly stealing
both loud and faint, and smiting hands withal,
I could tell my heart I'm glad we parted
along the bank, each one of whom looked hard
That dreams will soon come true
Then people I beheld who from the stream
Oh the blues come around
covers the breasts which thou dost not behold,
I just dropped by to tell you that I wish you happi-ness,
one of his kinsmen, who with him performed
I know I'd still want you.
had read this person's name to me already;
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
And even as he who, from the deep emerged
And the dark shadows creep
If I had rhymes that were as harsh and hoarse
Sunshine or rain
Canto CLXXXI
and three of them detached them from the troop,
Just listen to the whistle, it'll thrill you one and all,
not scorn, but so much pain, that only late
There's soda pop and the dancing's free
advancing through the noisome air toward us,
and don't go to criticizn' the one what knows the best.
one 's neighbor, and thereby his property
Don't say you care, you know that you'll be lying
I 'd have thee swallow now my thought of her.
That showed thru the darkest of nights.
collect them at the foot of my sad bush!
I'm Free At Last don't ask me why I'm cryin'
are here within; I speak not of the rest."
The tear will dry the rose will wither
Behold then, coming toward us in a boat,
I can't buy no beer.
Such as the Carisenda seems, when viewed
All I can say's I tried dear
Verrucchio's former Mastif and the new,
And as I watched, I cried in sorrow
is going through the kingdom of the dead?"
Now I've been married about six months,
that she gave suck to Ninus, and became
'Neath a cold gray tomb of stone
The others, who in working simony
Maybe you've been cheated in the past,
that one man's head served as the other's cap.
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ GOES THAT BUSY LITTLE THING
And then, addressing me, they said: "O Tuscan,
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain.
If thou art slow now, Reader, to believe
So you fool ev'ry new love you find
to have the people pass across the bridge,
Start with chapter twenty-four and read from one to thirty-three.
One day, for pastime merely, we were reading
what a blessed picnic this here baby got today.
nor yet did my good Teacher set me down
If you're lovin' me like i'm lovin' you
that I on two occasions scattered them."
I'll never see that gal of mine
of higher rank then thou believest him.
But I found I couldn't hide
so, next, from that one was another born,
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart?
since from the mountain's summit, whence it moved
She stopped and I knew right away
This side and that, upon the dark, stone floor,
Those wedding bell will never ring for me
Canto CLXXXII
Teacher," said I on rising, "talk to me
When all dead in Christ shall rise
I had not kept my head turned toward it long,
You say get out and I'd better stay gone
Alecto, she who weepeth on the right;
So slide it on over (move it on over)
the artful game of magical deceits.
I'm so lonesome I could cry
I then began: "Consider, Poet, thou
You're Gonna Change or I'm a-gonna leave.
because they cannot utter it with perfect speech.
You're nice to me when there's no one else around
He then turned back, and crossed the ford again.
And I've been down that road before
returned; and never was a mastif loosed
Why should I pay, tell me why should I cry
he answered, when he saw me shedding tears,
Mother's day has turned to night
and as we followed up the lonely path
Though his leg was very crippled
until thou reach the horrid plain of sand;
Should you go first and I remain one thing I'll have you do
pray set us down below, nor let disdain
Just give me a ring
will be our knowledge from that moment on,
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
I say, continuing, that long before
Well, you're just in time to turn around
together in one ditch; such was it here;
On the dixie cannonball, on the dixie cannonball,
cause me to weep with grief and sympathy.
than a country mile;
thus is it yonder willed, where there is power
This dog house here is mighty small
which crosses here, I know not what it said;
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
with one half of their bodies towered up
Walk slowly down that long long path for soon I'll follow you
people I saw upon a great stream's bank;
I said they'll never never take her love from me.
upon their heads, and Popes and Cardinals,
Ev'rybody's longin' for somebody else
the undiscerning life which made them foul,
Winter or summer
The rainfall causes them to howl like dogs;
When I can't get you off of my mind.
as son. But to the last trench of the ten
They are tears of sorrow and tears of delight,
Canto CLXXXIII
before the kindred couple's piteous case,
Ten little numbers and a boogie time
as though his son I were, and not his mate.
That you've been seen - a-runnin' 'round
that, howsoe'er I gazed into its depths,
'neath the palms tonight he's sleepin'
And in that part through which our nourishment
Well then she started naggin',
"All fearfulness must here be left behind;
I WENT TO THE RIVER, BUT THE WATER'S TOO COLD,
how good an ape of nature I was once."
Now I'm sad, my heart is cryin',
such that all eyes would be repelled by it.
Yeah the honky tonk blues
and let old Barbariccia guide the ten.
The lovelight in your eyes has faded
descended hither from my blessí¨d seat,
The bar-fly's waitin' for an easy mark
As, when a fog is thinning off, one's gaze
When your soul is burdened down
caused him to feel how one of them could rip.
I gave you my love, never thought that we'd part
and led me to the bush, which all in vain
Where you´ll never, never die
the vestry known for its fair ornaments;
Well Lord I got 'em,
replied the shade of that Great-hearted man,
Here with the shadows around me
and of the people who were burned therein.
We're getting closer to the grave each day
our feet proceeded not without our hands.
A garden's blooming there for me
unless too great resemblance play me false,
And then she failed to shine my shoes,
He was the grandson of the good Gualdrada;
On your journey to the grave
the Devil at Bologna, I once heard
Just how much mama worried when we children were away
whereby, as still appears, the sky was burned;
Got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes,
which from me thus hath torn away my leaves,
When we meet our love ones there
in order to behold your punishments."
To travel a land of hunger and pain
fall thou upon my head a thousand times."
Out on the perilous deep
Then he, as woe on woe he heaped, went off,
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you...
Canto CLXXXIV
When I had gazed around a while, I looked
Shake it on over (move it on over)
but turned toward me both mind and face, and said,
Each eye looked toward the west
Then lo, a serpent hurled himself at one,
Mother is gone, to her home
Downward I looked, and yet my living eyes
The darkness is falling, the sky has turned gray
then, for the wind, I shrank behind my Leader,
Baby, we're really in love.
O Power of God, how truly just thou art,
The Angel of Death
from which its end can never be cut off,
now my key, it don't fit no more
when we a band of spirits met, who came
The Angel of Death
alone we were, and free from all misgiving.
That's where I long to be
and hear what through eternity resounds."
THAT MULE AIN'T BOTHERED WITH AN ITCH...FLY TROUBLE
Through them am I in such a family,
Too many boyfriends and sociable sals may drive your sweetheart away
who all wept very sorely, while on each
haul up on a crack up on a wheelbarrow blackstone
concealed from thee, in order to speak little;
Move over little dog cause a big dog's movin in
and in it I beheld a frightful throng
For a life of sin I have paid the cost
Risen up to look, I so stood on the bridge,
I know I'd still want you.
which, without seeing lure or game-bird, makes
It's the one regret I'll carry with me to my grave
O rabble, that, ill-born beyond all people,
From jail on a West Texas plain
the penalty which sparkles on you thus?"
It seemed to us that mama heard the turnin' of the key
is not extinguished, art thou all the more
Praise the Lord I saw the light.
As, when a fog is thinning off, one's gaze
When the Angel of Death
But tell me if among these passing people
When I'm lonely, I want you only
Cruel indeed thou art, if, thinking what
I'm the same old trouble that you've always been through
that, while the serpent fork-wise clove its tail,
Countin' numbers 1-2-3
that e'er the lower was my steady foot.
I wish to my soul you'd slow down the pace
Canto CLXXXV
from circle unto circle down through Hell;
Long about Monday she was nowhere about
and said: "Go on, for I am strong and bold!"
I guess I was too young to know
upon our left ecclesiastics were."
And the dark shadows creep
E'er to a truth that hath a falsehood's face
I bowed my head and cried again
these from the sepulchre will rise again
When the Lord made me, He made a Ramblin' Man
Because he talked we ceased not moving on,
They're gone to return no more
Love, which absolves from loving none that 's loved,
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ
contented are, because they hope to come,
And wishes he was still an old pine tree.
back to the place where silent is the sun.
You wouldn't worry me half as much as you do
If thou as wary art as thou art wont,
Then bows his head that his shame he might hide
with muzzle out of water, in the season
I'll hide my tears and say I'm Free At Last.
that what he had begun he wholly leaves;
Yes I received Your note today
Here less than night it was, and less than day,
I'll have a new home of glory eternal
reverberated through the starless air;
For you've grown tired of all the love I gave you
Now canst thou, son, behold the short-lived cheat
YOU SHAKE YA HEAD AN TWITCH YA NOSE
to others is, for that is known to none.
Please let her know that I was saved.
which slightly slopes. My Leader then, and I,
When my life here is o'er I'm going home
when sweetly and softly she began to say,
From the Great Salt Lakes of Utah to California's golden shore
the highest Wisdom and the primal Love.
when slowly through the window came a plaintive funeral hymn
I, seeing Heaven so well disposed toward thee,
Now at last you've gone and left me
for thy peace would we pray to Him, since pity
Baby, rock, let's rock on down the line
Oh, how dismayed that Curio seemed to me,
For He spoke of this great battle that is coming by and by.
who both himself and what he owned destroyed.
Trying to take me back please
as if it were not, longs for that which is;
I'll always keep your picture it means so much to me
Canto CLXXXVI
I know not whether it were will, or fate,
Ev'rybody's crazy 'bout somebody else
by turbid clouds enveloped; next, with wild
I could tell my heart that I don't miss you
a "˜No' for money there becomes a "˜Yes.'"
You just look through your cookbook
as did my Teacher o'er that selvage-bank,
This world holds nothin' for me
Then said my Leader: "He 'll not wake again
The canned stuff's spoiled - else the jar's got broke
that he who comes behind moves what he touches?
"Out in this cold wide world all alone
a general minister and guide, to change,
If you're meant for me like i'm meant for you
"Before thou enter any further, know
There ya have it, friends
But she is blest, and gives no heed to that;
As we danced to the waltz of the wind
while to the gnat the fly is giving way, "
I made a mistake, dear, by tellin' you lies
but inasmuch as, if I hear the truth,
Baby, we fit like a glove
of the other pole, and our pole so low down,
I went to the country - just the other day
But still I did not weep, nor did I answer
To drift from pillar to post
O cloak that wearies through eternity!
I'm a long gone daddy I don't need you anyhow
of Malebí²lgí«, and the next vain cries;
The tears and sorrow I have caused her
and I beheld it wonderfully dark.
But love to you was just a song
of people, that I never would have thought
And now I'm So Tired Of It All.
of that which many voyages has made;
Well Lord I got 'em,
so that the fact may seem less strange to thee,
Then no one will ever know the truth but me
hear how, and wherefore they are packed together.
Some don't seem to care
or e'er thou trust me to the arduous course.
And now I'll rock...yeah rock...
became the member which a man conceals,
For he had just said goodbye
which had a wretched floor and lack of light.
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart?
for Barbariccia clasped him in his arms,
Move it on over (move it on over)
Canto CLXXXVII
And "If," continuing his previous words,
If you only loved me half as much as I love you
so likewise Geryon set us down below,
And get no lovin' in return
"˜O Lady of virtue, thou through whom alone
"Oh! who was that brave girl so sweet?"
weeping she turned her shining eyes away;
Just get your self a ticket on that Pan American Queen
now to all recognition makes them dark.
And then there was a silence
because the Emperor who rules up there,
If you make a snake mad he's sure gonna bite
Thus he set forth, and thus he had me enter
Are you walkin and a-talkin with the lord?
I, therefore: "Teacher, say what town is this?"
You leave me here, to pay and pay
Said the good Teacher: "Son, thou seest now
Upsy-daisy, (Rootie Tootie)
and when he saw us there he bit himself,
She knows not to speak to my child or to me."
that in revenge dost deal such blows as these!
I went and broke my darlin's heart
reveal in any one such cruelty,
Swing wide your gate of love and please don't let me fall
And he, who well the handmaids of the Queen
To that beautiful home up there
"O Malebranche," from our bridge he cried,
My friends did say, before she went away
Then lo, a serpent hurled himself at one,
She will bloom in the Master's bouquet.
and, when he comes to bite it, is appeased,
On His head the thorns did lay
"Now who art thou, that comest ere thy time?"
Her eyes began to blinkin' and that gal broke in - to.
when oft the peasant dreams that she is gleaning;
Now I'm too busy pitchin' woo
Stuck in the slime, they say: "Sullen we were
Your dad-ad-dy is lon-one-some
as round the former is the dismal moat;
I went there to fight, but I'll tell you that night
and clinched itself so well in front of him,
And things began to simmer down,
so that the tail may do no injury."
Well, why don't you be just like you used to be
"and who at times dost pincers make of them,
You are on my lonely mind
confiding in that noble speech of thine,
There's been troubles and tribulation, there'll be sorrow and despair.
Canto CLXXXVIII
made me unjust against myself, the just.
We'll call them Mary and William
'gainst me inflamed the minds of every one;
With the pride that came between us
shalt thou have us, than while we cross the swamp."
There is one smiling face the gods would see
the sepulchres make all the ground uneven;
Ever since the day you set me free
before I speak of it. But if my words
You pack your rags and go back to dad
When I made answer I began: "Alas!
I mean I ain't gonna love you anymore,
of those tormented spirits of old times,
Then suddenly I got that old time feeling
which had their arrow-heads with pity barbed,
Where the redeemed of God shall stand
or silver from Matthias, when by lot
Only hold her hand and say goodbye
In order that thou rid thee of this fear,
In your loveless mansion on the hill
that there were people coming such as you.
And when the whistle blows, I've gotta go,
which out of rotting limbs is wont to come.
Don't worry, 'cause I ain't got no wife
and he that lives without attaining it,
I'll have a new body
the lovely manner which hath done me honor.
Only hold her hand and say goodbye
not he, whose breast and shadow broken were
I've got to get rollin'
hence, as she lists, let Fortune turn her wheel,
In my dreams you're still my only darlin'
alas! "˜What 's done is done!' a speech which proved
I often sit and wonder
as doth a boar, when from the sty let out.
You don't care whose life you ruin
And with his arms he then embraced my neck,
When the lights all grow dim
no help; their nails kept scraping down their scabs,
Ready to live in Paradise
whereat three spirits came and stood below us,
I'll have a new body
how hath the sun from evening crossed to morn?"
Built it on hope and the love I thought was true
concerning him was questioning my Leader,
Poor ol' KAW-LIGA, he never got a kiss
are likely to be seeds, and bear the fruit
Maybe I could do better if I reached for a star,
Canto CLXXXIX
As is the appearance which, where many moats
Oh heavenly Father, help me understand
to look upon the other evil born.
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain.
then, toward each other turning, thus they spoke:
Till one day I was toted home and mama didn't know her little boy
they then made off with those his suffering limbs.
God help her she leaps, oh there's no one to weep
not yet had Michel Zanche's soul arrived,
When tears come down
another, coiling, tied his arms together,
And everlasting joys I'll reap
"If I have rightly understood thy words,"
I built a world in my heart
that frequently a soul falls into it,
I've lost my heart it seems
say who ye are," said I. They bent their necks,
Keep movin' along
and he had of his rump a trumpet made.
Before it steals their fate
We reached a noble Castle's foot, seven times
If you go to the city then you will find me there
While peering with mine eyes down there, I saw
Hows about keepin' steady company?
twisting and lashing its sharp-pointed horn.
No-bod-o-dy lonesome for me.
reveal in any one such cruelty,
he was some mothers darlin, he was some mothers son
This thou shouldst know, if just come down, for he
You'll sometimes think of me
When I had given myself to peering further,
Make believe that wrong is right
climb thou in front, for midst I wish to be,
It's hard to know another's lips will kiss you
"and, after thou art gone, thy fame be bright,
Life sometimes can be so cruel that a heart will pray for death
I now was where the booming of the water,
No more darkness no more night
this dismal little brook, when it hath reached
Some folks might sa-ay that I'm no good
"What saidst thou? Held? Is he not still alive?
I've lost faith in dreams somehow
the world to Chaos hath been oft reduced;
Fall down on your knees and pray
bowed down and closed, when brightened by the sun,
My Son Calls Another Man Daddy
not knowing what to do; then later on
"My wife's been sick - the young'ns, too
Canto CXC
Then the great provost turned toward Farfarello,
Cause he's just a helpless servant to a master that he serves
here was the place for us to ford the ditch.
Sweep it on over (move it on over)
making a horrid roar beneath us; hence,
I tried my best to warn you, but you wouldn't listen
With him Don Michel Zanche of Logodoro
And make her do what's right
and then, while swaying here and there its tip,
There is one smiling face the gods would see
and they replied: "Yes, see thou nick it for him!"
That the old-time religion was real
and toward Saint Peter's go their way; while all
What a fool I was to go and break the trust she gave
that I knew how to raise me in the air;
And he drowses dead mother's ring from his finger
eternal things, and I eternal last;
Bees Just Waitin' for honey
"and who at times dost pincers make of them,
I remember back when you were nice and sweet
I sorrowed then, and now again I sorrow,
That meant more to me than thou
the hope I had of winning to the top.
So slide it on over (move it on over)
thou eat; thou with this wretched flesh didst clothe us,
he just thought you need some sunshine and he lent it for a while.
above. On this side have their burial-place
You are on my lonely mind.
while upward to the top of one great rock
Her children safe from harm throughout the years tand then she went to sleep
And they, when we had stopped, began again
what a blessed picnic this here baby got today.
of such a nature were the flames that moved
Bees Just Waitin' for honey
"That thou hast caught me in the misery
The white hat, the high-heeled boots
To the request, however, which thou makest
I've never seen a night so long
I 'll neither say, nor show thee, who I am,
Though his leg was very crippled
"Above us, in the Malebranche's ditch,"
I wish to my soul you'd slow down the pace
a sinner he was crushing with his teeth,
So tell me gentlemen is it right to send her to a cell
when people in the great round trench I saw
Keep movin' along
Here tears are shed because of heartless wrongs;
As I travel down life's road
Canto CXCI
while with his paws he gathered in the air.
Now Mary was just a plain mother
when I was where its bottom came in view.
Beneath the cold clay
and work her arts, she settled with her slaves,
And you will hear Him if you'll just pray
Of all wrong-doing which in Heaven wins hate
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
"came any ever, by his own deserts,
If you love me half as much as I love you
then we with full assurance toward the town,
While my precious darling's sleeping
with Turnus, Nisus and Eurỳalus.
As far as we in the business are concerned
that frequently a soul falls into it,
Will I always be a dreamer dreaming of the used to be
I think, with Ganellon, and Tebaldello,
Today I passed you on the street
is that great Chiron who brought up Achilles;
But one word led to another
Behold then, coming toward us in a boat,
And don't mind if I start to weep
what time the Giants caused the Gods to fear;
Just how many homes are broken tonight
I here saw folk, more numerous than elsewhere,
The log train is silent
the terror-stricken man, "to see or hear
HONEY DO YOU LOVE ME, HUH, QUIT YOUR HESITATIN',
under whose king the world of old was pure.
Then i know what you're dreamin' of
nor by Arachnne were such webs designed.
There just ain't nobody knows what I go through
and said: "My father, why dost thou not help me?"
For wealth and what it will buy
And with that sad crowd yonder Priscian goes,
And that's the only thing that counts
the thing's incredibility has made me
haul up on a crack up on a wheelbarrow blackstone
and though a long way thou hast gone already,
'Cause if all these lies were true
eternal, cursí¨d, cold and burdensome;
I was just a lad, nearly 22
I wept so, that my Escort said to me:
Better pack up your suitcase and leave in a hurry
thou thinkest of this landslide, which is guarded
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
through hearing thee, but deemed it so already,
The tear will dry the rose will wither
Canto CXCII
on seeing that the world has shortly changed
There's a tear in my beer
against the men of Siena, point thine eyes
She promised to honor, to love and obey
These were my Leader's words; I therefore begged
Katy, she's waitin' at the garden gate
and each is swathed by that wherewith he burns."
The fire fell from Heaven, I fell to the floor
Since love for my own native place constrained me,
So baby, if you wants to shine
thou now art come beneath the hemisphere
But I got it the hard, hard way
Though I was on the summit of the arch
You pack your rags and go back to dad
which hath the world's good things thus in her claws?"
Neath a cold gray tomb of stone
nor will, I think, for all eternity.
Lord I tried and tried, to keep her satisfied
As is the appearance which, where many moats
"That girl down the street should be run from our midst
And in that part through which our nourishment
And stop this burnin', yearnin' while we're apart
is being burned, and at the other drips
Well, me and my baby - we just bought a Ford
a "˜No' for money there becomes a "˜Yes.'"
Some don't seem to care
Then Barbariccia, vexed as were the rest,
Oh! Plea-ease - don't let me love you
will sit beside me here upon my left.
TO YOUR EARTHLY WEALTH, YOU MUST SAY GOODBYE,
perceives what place in Hell belongs to it,
For time has proven I was wrong
as if the latter were the tongue that spoke,
She was her daddy's only daughter
which warned men not to sail beyond their bounds;
All his treasures of diamonds and gold
for he had set before him in his van
For mama couldn't sleep until she kissed us all goodnight
And now, while toward that center we were moving,
And i know there's some one waitin', with the sweetest how you are,
it happens that another scurries off.
And with hope all gone they walk alone these men with broken hearts
Ivy was never rooted to a tree
Oh, please understand.
"O son," he said, "whoever of this herd
And then she went and said goodbye
"Who, Teacher, is he yonder, who is tortured
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you...
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upon himself the edge of finger-nails
Here comes the log train
"Leader," said I, "his death by violence,
There's no use to pretend
even such a structure seemed I now to see;
YOU SHAKE YA HEAD AN TWITCH YA NOSE
Whence I to him: "Ask thou again whate'er
Darling that you went away
All tongues would certainly fall short of it,
Stood a little paper boy so hungry and cold
thou dive, but o'er the pitch shall beat my wings;
down behind the trees and the moon is slowly rising
Therein, as far as one could judge by list'ning,
And I won't be home no more.
each soul will find again its dismal tomb,
You said that you no longer loved me
another's person in herself, as dared
The more I learn to care for you, the more we drift apart
pray tell me why so pitiless toward mine
I heard that lonesome whistle blow
and then the trench was clearly shown to me;
Don't forget his darkness just before the break of dawn wait for the light to shine
so arrogant toward God; not even he,
Sets my sinful soul on fire
recall me, prithee, unto others' minds;
For the God that made you made them too these men with broken hearts
was my reply, "for me to place thy name,
Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou
often shall I commend thee unto Him.'
In a little pine grove by the old home
Thus gathered I beheld the fair assembly
In that fair homeland we'll know no parting beyond the sunset for evermore
"Ye that are pressing thus your breasts together,
And here's the reason why I say
where folk in such a wrangle are engaged;
Humpty-dumpty, (Rootie Tootie)
He then turned back, and crossed the ford again.
He has said "Be ye not troubled for these things shall come to pass."
In each mouth, as a heckle would have done,
I watched my dream world crumble like clay
will drive the other out with much offence.
Ever get's a-hold of me,
and that the moon is now beneath our feet;
Have really got me down
I well perceived how, when he overlaid
We had our love to make us happy...
they do me honor, and therein do well."
Then you cry and ask the judge won't you please turn him loose
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nothing has ever by thine eyes been seen
Then I began to wonder, if I had made a blunder,
of Menalippus out of spite, than this one
You look just like an angel but you haven't got wings,
The tear-stained ground
That she waited just to know that we'd all come home alright
as likewise he is, who perceives a boar
I'm tired of doin' all the givin'
The cloven tail was taking on the shape
Both footsore and weary I rested awhile
whither, when lost, he went away to die."
Then I recall how my Jesus died
said he, "of every sect, and far more laden
And I stare at the water so deep
by means of wasps and hornets that were there.
Now open your eyes and count with me
behind me, is still visible above.
I picked her up in a pickup truck
nailed up; whereat, without a word, I looked
Pick guitar fill fruit jar and be gay-o
how hath the sun from evening crossed to morn?"
The log train is silent
I then stretched out my hand a little way,
Last night as I lay dreamin'
I sorrowed then, and now again I sorrow,
I could say that someone put me wise
well do I know the road; so be at rest!
She'll do me, she'll do you
when 'mong so many foes they saw themselves.
haul up on a crack up on a wheelbarrow blackstone
according to what poets hold for truth,
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain.
let one of you advance, and hear me speak;
And, honey, -- I'm -- Just -- Waitin' -- for -- you.
Then round he turned, and seemed to be of those
Rootie Tootie, she's my Thursday gal.
perhaps to put off going to the torture
So help your brother along the road no matter where he starts
above extends, and draweth in below.
His life's blood almost gone
which hath the world's good things thus in her claws?"
The children're all with you now the kindly doctor said
means such as those which at the Jubilee
Out on the perilous deep
These were my Leader's words; I therefore begged
Take these chains from my heart and set me free
who now were cooked inside their crusted hides;
If you'll just travel in His light and pray both day and night
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Then Gaddo, when the fourth day we had reached,
AND WHEN YA JUST ABOUT TO DOSE...FLY TROUBLE
so strong with love the tone of my appeal.
The news is out - all over town
and thus like crystal visors wholly fill
You couldn't forgive me, so you went away
He passed the isle of Lemmos on his way,
All I can say's I tried dear
backs slowly out, even so did he withdraw;
I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You.
Gianni de' Soldanier is further on,
would you stop and try to save
with fear, I looked on high,
If I ever lose her I'll lay me down and die
though not with either Saracens or Jews,
Oh Lord, please stop that terrible train
that, Florence, thou art even now in pain!"
How He brought salvation when He made me whole
Here Alichí¬n could not control himself,
I don't aim to meddle in your business I'm just tryin' to save you an awful price
so Phlegyas in his stifled wrath became.
When the time rolls around for me to lay down and die
with wings outspread, intent on seizing us.
Life can be sad when you're livin' all alone
in fashion; these he flapped in such a way,
His heart was set on the Indian maiden with the coal black hair
art crouching, safely now regain my side."
Now I lay awake, dear, with tears in my eyes
which cannot then be sailed; " instead of which,
tell her that I've met my saviour
of that bad Worm who perforates the world.
Our love was in flower as summer grew on
as on a rock of that hard crag I leaned,
Earth's toiling ended oh glorious dawning beyond the sunset when day is done
raising his maimed arms through the gloomy air,
Just a spark of the love that used to be
When half way through the journey of our life
Lord, I'm in Georgia doin' time
who thus from one were fleeing, who on foot,
The roses were bloomin' there on the Border
My flesh had hardly been made bare of me,
Just get your self a ticket on that Pan American Queen
to arm him so with food, lest stress of snow
There's no room in my heart for the blues
and when he wholly felt himself in play,
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.
Roland blew not so terrible a blast.
On the Tennessee Border.
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his back he yielded to the hanging rock,
All she said was if you get blue,
Like one who listens to a great deceit
If you're countin' on me like i'm countin' on you
He told me then: "The one who from his cheeks
Hunky-dory, (Rootie Tootie)
yawneth a well exceeding wide and deep,
And there as I listened, my eyes filled with tears
There are no women here to sell for coin."
But unless you've made no mistakes in your life
which goes bewailing its eternal loss."
On the past let's close the door
No path was this for one who wore a cloak,
But now you are gone it's over and so
And he to me: "They all will be locked in,
What can I do, love, with my heart
I well perceived he was a Messenger
Where the soul........never dies.
skirted the edge of that red, boiling stream,
For when she went away, my world ended that day
out of the wood a little stream spirts forth,
My hair's still curly and my eyes are still blue
and, all alone, I saw the Saladin.
to some poor sinner man
as on a rock of that hard crag I leaned,
And when that whistle blows, I've gotta go,
'T is true that I was conjured once before
THEN IT'S USELESS TO YOU, IF YOU'VE STRAYED FROM THE FOLD,
azure upon a yellow pouch I saw,
Where the soul of man never dies
so full of slumber was I at the moment
You no longer care for me but when you're happy with another
Right in the midst of its malicious field
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain.
nor for a tongue that says "˜mamma' and "˜dad';
A picture from the past came slowly stealing
"It needs must be that thou reveal thy name,
'Cause soon his head - like mine will bow
is ruined, burned, and by extortions robbed;
At someone else's side
seized me so strongly for his love of me,
And then they all started to pray
alive; but if they 're dead, by what right, then,
A moonlit path that only she would know
his pluck appeared, and that disgusting sack,
In this world, I'm just a drifter
And I to him: "Point out and show to me,
Boy you can't win no matter if you're right
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I 'd have thee swallow now my thought of her.
What can I do, love, with my heart
for all these here are subject, for like fault,
People steal, they cheat and lie
and under good Augustus' rule I lived
Just think but for the grace of God it would be you instead of him
and some were seated cuddled up together,
All my faith in you is gone but the heartaches linger on
And he replied to me: "They each and all
'Cause nothin's ever gonna be alright nohow
might each his blessing give, if there he went.
But I can't get you off of my mind.
when still corruptible, the immortal world,
You didn't care enough, to even say goodbye
collect them at the foot of my sad bush!
When i see them treetops tall,
we went along, one first and one behind,
I don't care if tomorrow never comes
the tears, which with the boiling it unlocks,
I told her that I'd spend the rest of my days
judges, and, as he girds himself, commits.
It'll be fought at Armageddon, it shall be a sad, sad day.
"The first of those of whom thou wouldst have news,"
But you think that you're above me
the causes were, and of the Papal Robe.
This ain't right and that is wrong
holding the bounds of both the hemispheres,
That I was stringin' you along
I saw his arms withdraw into his armpits,
He shed his lifes blood for you and for me
the lustful Cleopatra follows her.
'Cause I just don't like this way of livin'.
"˜Why, Beatrice,' she said, "˜true Praise of God,
And everlasting joys I'll reap
saying: "But where can Cianfa have remained?"
All I need is a bride who want's a big-hearted groom
then, sighing, and with weeping voice, he said:
As I brushed your arm and walked so close to you ...
to where the melancholy people sat.
Tomorrow you'll be
Ne'er with more colors in its woof and warp
I thought I'd make her happy if I stepped aside
Behold how torn apart Mahomet is!
That when I get a kiss I think that something's wrong
and said to me: "Now be thou strong and bold!
I know it filled her heart with pain
and the other two my canto names above.
I knew someday that you would wed another
Canto CXCVIII
his father-in-law, and others of the council
For I don't want be seen here at all."
when me she forced to enter yonder wall,
DO YOU WANT TO MARRY, GOT NO TIME TO TARRY,
The cities of Lamone and Santerno
I'll break sin's chains and set you free
changed its first patron; wherefore he, for this,
And my heart fell at your feet
recall him not untimely to itself."
Darling that you went away
said he, "of every sect, and far more laden
Of a family I once knew.
Their youthful age had made, thou modern Thebes,
There's a mighty battle coming and it's well now on its way.
Even such did I become, as those are, who,
Now I've been married about six months,
which else would not be easily obtained."
You'll see many loved ones standin' in the crowd
were foreordained unto the holy place,
The roses have faded, there's frost at my door
and I still gazing at its lofty wall,
'cause it looks like rain
it now behooves the trumpet sound for you,
DID YOU EVER SIT STRAIGHT UP IN BED
and who just now didst talk in Lombard, saying:
Years have passed since that parting
before the three, as if their lord he were.
I patted his shoulder, my feelings to hide
was wont to bellow with the voice of him
I built a world in my heart
was fiercely kicking out with both his feet.
As we pay tribute to one of the greatest of all time Bob Wills
I then began: "Your state impressed within me
People steal, they cheat and lie
which cannot then be sailed; " instead of which,
Death may be lingering near.
and signalled to it to approach the edge,
I gave you my love, never thought that we'd part
"If they can speak within those sparks," said I,
Wedding bells are ringing in the chapel
I, who am dead, must needs conduct him here
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
And I, who with them am tormented here,
The only one I'd fool is me
Of those things only should one be afraid,
Yes, thy burdens are greater than mine.
then at thy pleasure shalt thou hurry me."
But deep inside the sorrow shows
Canto CXCIX
which waits for every man that fears not God.
The Devil's Train is long and black
who gave the youthful king the ill support.
It makes me laugh and it makes me cry
when we two countenances still beheld
And I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Livin'.
and were on that part of the crag, which hangs
Said the little paper boy, there on the street
takes from them all the power of leaving it.
And then we'll have some fun
the other two were to the latter joined
Darling, someday when your memories wander
held him so bound, that on the uncovered part
And before you render a verdict on what this girl has done
suffice thee for thy work eternally."
It's the California Zephyr, the Union Pacific Queen
along the road o'er which his brethren go,
won't hurt me so.
the beaver seats himself to wage his war;
Her eyes began to blinkin' and that gal broke in - to.
Red eyes he hath, a dark and greasy beard,
You told me you loved me, you told me a lie
who lights the world, least hides his face from us,
Is work on your home completed
When I had given myself to peering further,
Just say God called home your Ra-amblin' Man
Hence, to the morning having turned our stern,
You're not buyin'
The heavens, in order not to be less fair,
I'm like a weepin'-willow, while we're apart
Is not all moving air quenched here below?"
THERE'S A STORY OLD, THAT HAS OFTEN BEEN TOLD,
which poureth forth so broad a stream of speech?"
To a land of groans and pain
inscribed upon the summit of a gate;
I can't escape from you.
I knew by now the names of each and all,
Are you doin' this for spite
but that complete experience may be giv'n him,
Jesus died for me long ago
hence onward urge thyself a little more."
Rootie Tootie, she's my Wednesday gal.
in opposite direction to his neck.
You are on my lonely mind
Then with a gentler mien he turned to me,
You'll dig up the money or you'll work the streets
since which till now I 've had him by the hair;
That I was glad to see you go
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the execution of so great a charge,
Death may be lingering near.
I still give praise and render thanks to God.
In this wicked ole world today
and had I not so prematurely died,
But just before I reached the end
which caused a trembling in the eternal air;
I love you, so swing wide your gate of love
their reason to their sensual appetite.
Katy, she's waitin' at the garden gate
even so who governs France shall yield to this."
That weddin' bells won't cure
Then Barbariccia, vexed as were the rest,
My Love for You Has turned to hate
along with them, intent on their sad plaint;
If you love me half as much as I love you
I then began, "say something, if thou canst."
That the old-time religion was real
No path was this for one who wore a cloak,
and that we two could get along
and were it now, it would not be too soon;
Higgama, jiggama, horney cuff,
means such as those which at the Jubilee
Tears fallin' down your pretty cheeks,
it stretched it upward all along his back.
I wouldn't let my dear saviour in
through the dark air are ever pouring down;
In my heart, I know that you'll come through
Some time had now from early morn elapsed,
We fight and we fuss like a dog and a cat
for 't is not right to have what one casts off.
As we pay tribute to one of the greatest of all time Bob Wills
reverberated through the starless air;
It rides on rails of fear
His weighty words then drove me to the point,
'Cause the night shift's waitin' for mornin'
and at that moment this old mass of rock
She's long gone, and now I'm lonesome blue
devoid of war within her tyrants' hearts;
Ev'rything's again' me and it's got me down
We turned our backs upon the woeful vale
Honky tonk blues,
"and who at times dost pincers make of them,
I prayed there and God had His way. (For-)
art crouching, safely now regain my side."
You're only lookin' around
but when his doubt had wholly spent itself,
We're gonna have a new baby about the first of May
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over some people who, it seemed, emerged
There'll be great signs in Heaven, in the sun, the moon, the stars.
and with such injury and scoff, indeed,
We'll order up two bowls of chili settin' the woods on fire
that I knew how to raise me in the air;
I knew when I first met you that you'd be my sweetheart
which is not yet avenged for him by any
He's the devil, not a man.
whom thou describest as so whelmed with woe."
How He brought salvation when He made me whole
as from a boar's, a tusk on either side,
Well I went to a dance and I wore out my shoes
"˜A sinner of the thievish fire is this,'
I haven't had the chance that other kids had
that I, thus up-side down, have cooked my feet,
I can't forget lovin' you
not scorn, but so much pain, that only late
Your dad-ad-dy is lon-one-some
"O piteous she who hastened to my help,
I've waited all through the years love
My Leader then went down into the boat,
Then's when you'll wish; you had Jesus nigh
o'er the lone slope I so resumed my way,
On that judgement day; you'll weep and you'll cry
than these, there were no human spirits saved."
But now you've gone dear, breakin' my heart
Neptune ne'er saw so great a crime committed
And I shall spend eternity
And so mayst thou return to the sweet world,
After you're gone, when mem'ries come to haunt me
and after, in the eternal, steep us thus!
You're just in time to be too late
as far as where our human form begins.
And now I've got another date
such on that gloomy slope did I become;
Those wedding bell will never ring for me
I saw that Brutus who drove Tarquin out,
God help her she leaps, oh there's no one to weep
the three, who this as answer understood,
I'm Free At Last from love and all its' worries
that for its sake I lost both sleep and strength.
We're getting closer to the grave each day
what spirits these are whom thou seest here?
I made a mistake, dear, by tellin' you lies
that every person in thee may be drowned!
She just couldn't stand my disgrace
thus ever to thy harm was thy will rash."
We're gonna have a new baby about the first of May
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nay, more, I 'd have thee certainly believe
And hold you just the way I used to do
toward us; now, therefore, look ahead of thee,"
Long is the road that leads you
Then, having talked among themselves awhile,
We're getting closer to the grave each day
what to these eyes of mine was manifest!
Built it on hope and the love I thought was true
nor ev'n the bounden love which should have cheered
I STAYED OUT TOO LATE LAST NIGHT, ON A LITTLE SPREE,
three Frisians would have made a useless boast;
If you mind your own business, you'll stay busy all the time.
Then said my Leader: "He 'll not wake again
Before it steals their fate
who Thebes besieged; he held, and seems to hold
You tell him lies he don't belie-ieve
and stretched their hooks out toward the pitch-belimed,
But I'm learnin' how to count in rhyme
"Surely some strange new thing must needs reply"
I could tell my friends I threw you down
Dost thou not hear the anguish of his cry?
Each vow was a plaything that she threw away.
While I was singing him such notes as these,
The time will come
nor will, I think, for all eternity.
Please tell me darlin' why can't you be true
the thought of which already breaks my heart,
And she broke this heart of mine
All of a sudden issued forth these words
there's water... cool, clear water.
and pack of hounds approach his hunting-post,
I'll go find a gal that wants to treat me right
as far as where our human form begins.
If you'll just travel in His light and pray both day and night
contemptuous it appeared of all repose;
AND WAIT AROUND FOR HIM TO LIGHT
the bolt will cleave the mist in such a way,
BEFORE HE DIED, HE FAINTLY CRIED,
Rhea selected it, and when he wept,
Like a hog a rootin' up under a fence
in which the sacred seed may live again
You are on my lonely mind.
the artful game of magical deceits.
NO FRIENDS IT WON'T SAVE, YOUR POOR WICKED SOUL.
Thereat I turned around, and saw before me,
To take her into town
Among the intermediate souls I was,
Did you ever see a robin weep
Canto CCIII
I said: "If, Teacher, thou hide not thyself
I'm gonna keep drinkin' till I can't even think
"Further advance along this present crag
He has said "Be ye not troubled for these things shall come to pass."
If into this blind world thou only now
And while the organ plays I love you truly
which afterward the sinful women share,
We'll be strong enough to face our last goodbye
Herein those ugly Harpies make their nest,
Go and leave me alone with these blues
What time the hostile Podestí shall come,
While you set alone and cry.
O happy he whom He thereto elects!"
So she could never answer "YES" or "NO".
by saying that a man, when once prepared,
You thought she'd care for you and so you acted smart
Therein, as far as one could judge by list'ning,
AN YOU TELL YA SELF TONIGHTS THE NIGHT
he said unto his mates: "Are ye aware
Cause I ain't gonna call you any more.
And like a man who ponders while he acts,
There's somethin' o'er the hill that I gotta see
clutched tightly by the sinews of his feet.
In the Book of Revelation, words in chapter sixteen say
the livid-colored stone was full of holes,
In the distance hear her moanin' hear her lonesome whistle scream
One on his belly lay, and others leaned
And ever evenin' I'm sorrow bound
Great sorrow filled my heart on hearing this,
ALL THESE YEARS I'VE SET AND CRIED,
changed from the Arno to the Bacchiglií²ní«,
I just can't go on, dear, with tears in my eyes
which, without seeing lure or game-bird, makes
Then I hurry straight home and pack
I moved around, and with a steady gaze
I believed the lies you told to me
When I thus heard him speak to me in anger,
Heaven holds all my treasures
appears. But night is coming up again,
I've sent your saddle home.
We left him there; of him I therefore tell
Where the redeemed of God shall stand
but all the while were passing through the wood,
Just because I'm feelin' blue
and me with speed, I dread the Evilclaws;
Cause it just don't matter now
who on Apulia's fortune-ravaged soil
FATHER FORGIVE THEM PLEASE.
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"Teacher, what sort of people are those there,"
No matter how I struggle and strive
but see thou that thy tongue restrain itself.
Today I passed you on the street
and writhed all over; then Fra Catalí n,
You are on my lonely mind.
Its face was as the face of a just man,
And you know you caused it all by telling lies
Then wholly to my Leader's side I drew,
It hurts me to know you are unhappy
And as a flame on oily things is wont
You're my gal and I'm your feller dress up in your frock of yeller
as notable as is this present brook,
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ YOU SWAT AN LOOSE THE RING
I knew not one of them; but I perceived
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you...
is first received, it transfixed one of them,
Tootsie-wootsie, (Rootie Tootie)
Oft did that reading cause our eyes to meet,
Rootie Tootie, she's my Thursday gal.
that from the ocean's floor it never rose.
Roly Poly eats a hard day dinner it takes lots of strenght to run and play
nor will, I think, for all eternity.
And then they all started to pray
because it let him scuffle with the other;
Up there I'll meet my darlin'
once felt, and took my Leader. Virgil then,
Through valleys, o'er mountains and plains
justly doth every woe proceed from him.
Darling let's turn back my years and go back to yesterday
doth any of that first grade e'er descend,
In your loveless mansion on the hill
and one of such as these am I myself.
But in their shame they're all the same these men with broken hearts
that mine be worth to thee a thousand prayers,
Baby, rock, let's rock on down the line
was not a petty, but a first rate grafter.
Packin' and unpackin' your junk
My Teacher said: "Our answer will we give
Wedding bells are ringing in the chapel
hooking his pitch-smeared tresses, pulled him up,
And he drowses dead mother's ring from his finger
their feet are clawed, and feathered their great bellies;
Once he was fair and once he was young
vengeance upon the arrogant rebellion."
We lived in a place
to hinder it from floating on its surface.
I found myself a'bleedin', and very much a'needin',
Canto CCV
And I again: "But where are Phlegethon
That I will never know contentment
beyond it with us, but with quicker steps;
And we'll go Honky Tonkin', Honky Tonkin'
keeping the other under grievous weights,
I got the ho-on-ky tonk blues.
"The pinioned man thou gazest at, advised
You wore out a brand new trunk
Full of accursí¨d spirits are they all;
THEN IT'S USELESS TO YOU, IF YOU'VE STRAYED FROM THE FOLD,
The other, who behind me treads the sand,
That they called Chapman Town
who could not raise their bodies. Two of these
So shove it on over (move it on over)
As little flowers by the chill of night
We're getting closer to the grave each day
to keep its peace; and such we were, as still
And then you left me 'lone and blue
by calling out: "˜Help, help, good Vulcan, help!'
The cow broke in the field and eat up the beans
within my head, so that I roused myself,
What can I do, love, with my heart
till each is squatting huddled on the shore;
The darkness is falling, the sky has turned gray
So may God let thee, Reader, gather fruit
The canned stuff's spoiled - else the jar's got broke
for one that I am, shall make seven come out,
FOR WHEN GOD CALLS, FROM HIS HOME UP ON HIGH,
while with his paws he gathered in the air.
Today the tempest rolls high
but I left none apparent there just now.
Won't it be so bright and fair
the spirit of the wrathful Florentine
And I stare at the water so deep
and which hath more than once increased your pain?
That tomorrow you'll be wed,
but, owing to the weight, that weary folk
I'm alone and oh, so blue tonight
One was in front of us, and that was red;
Well shut my mouth, i'm a'headin' south, on the dixie cannon-ball
nor any flame of yonder fire molest.
That weddin' bells won't cure
Among the intermediate souls I was,
On who I'd spent my money, turnin' into dy - na - mite,
and with that little company, by whom
To a land of groans and pain
whene'er it be, unto the blessí¨d folk;
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart?
Canto CCVI
Then he: "I Frate Alberigo am,
How He brought salvation when He made me whole
I, who am dead, must needs conduct him here
down behind the trees and the moon is slowly rising
of qualities I saw the good collector,
But someday you'll wish that I still care.
Bestiality, and how Incontinence
Your cheatin' heart
see'st not the death that fights him on the flood,
I scratched your name right off my slate
at Ceperano, where a faithless liar
In a little pine grove by the old home
which goes bewailing its eternal loss."
I've waited all through the years love
such did that peaceless animal make me,
I've got an old flame in my heart
and more, thou hadst it, when thou madest coin."
I've just told Mama goodbye
along the fissure bathed the back. Indeed,
And there's pictures of keys and of strife
beneath, for I 'm for more of them returning
Things have changed, you'd rather fight than eat
I found my Leader, who had climbed already
Then after she'd exploded, her meanness all unloaded,
for each in rivalry ran back within.
You'll toss around
because the first ones form a solid block,
And you know you caused it all by telling lies
"Since he is still, lose not thy chance; but speak,
Each vow was a plaything that she threw away.
wherefore, if aught that 's new appear to us,
WITH TEARS IN HIS EYES, ON THE CROSS THERE HE DIED,
The Teacher therefore said: "If thou break off
I know I'd still want you.
such was the shame wherewith I turned to him,
That's the place i long to be,
I, seeing Heaven so well disposed toward thee,
Shake it on over (move it on over)
that for its sake I lost both sleep and strength.
Oh, I can't get you off of my mind
who go around here raging, tell the truth,
You tried and lost, now pay the cost
and all of them are standing in the well
The well's gone dry and I have to tote the water
that ye should know each other's veiled desires?"
If you mind your business, then you won't be mindin' mine.
We thus passed through with slowly moving steps
I know it filled her heart with pain
Canto CCVII
which doubled my first fear. Hence thus I thought:
I know that you'll never be true
The greater horn then of the ancient flame
Oh, all the things that might have been
weeping he said: "If thou through this blind prison
But now you are gone it's over and so
when we attained that narrow passage-way,
That weddin' bells won't cure
and of such thickness are they, that the weights
And all of the things they will buy
And they, when we had stopped, began again
And she broke this heart of mine
or e'er thou trust me to the arduous course.
I got the lovesick blues
that, Florence, thou art even now in pain!"
KAW-LIGA, was a wooden Indian standing by the door
nor pious reverence for my agí¨d father,
Sunflow'rs waitin' for the sunshine
of those old Romans who remained therein,
Don't come back now It is too late
on this side of the angel-trumpet's sound.
Beneath the cold clay
because my long theme drives me on so fast,
The scene was a crowded courtroom and the judge a stern old man
and tore it, that he carried off a piece.
So come and ride that glorious train
bidding thee lick the mirror of Narcissus."
A jug of wine to numb my mind
and when he had me wholly on his breast,
A blossom from an orange tree in your hair
And if thou shouldst be asked who else was there,
How I wish I could repay
or e'er thou trust me to the arduous course.
The rose I wore was red
Then I to him: "In sorrow and in grief
and souls that cry
excess of stench the deep abyss exhales,
Alone and forsaken by fate and by man
where I with ancient Rachel had my seat.
until I'm petrified.
for I should then fear neither claw nor hook!"
Too many parties and too many pals will break your heart someday
And I said: "Teacher, clearly I behold
Goodbye to the fields, that I used to roam
or stave, is opened as was one I saw,
and then maybe my heart
Here like with like is buried, and more hot
Oh you stayed by my side till you got all my money
Canto CCVIII
So likewise, as great sages have declared,
Death's angels took her away
nor for a tongue that says "˜mamma' and "˜dad';
And ever evenin' I'm sorrow bound
it said to me, "recall me, if thou canst;
Give my heart just a word of sympathy
turned his head round to where his legs had been,
Comes down after you
for this wild beast, on whose account thou criest,
And now we've reached the hour of parting
Then "Tell him not to slip away," I said,
If you go for me like i go for you
that sped away so swiftly through the air,
I'll look swell but you'll look sweller settin' the woods on fire
and all of them are standing in the well
My world is honest and true
but by an art divine, boiled there below,
Jesus died for me long ago
Thereat were quieted the woolly cheeks
I knew you couldn't win, I told you from the start
wherefore, one people governs, and the other
Got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes,
"˜Why, Beatrice,' she said, "˜true Praise of God,
Are you walkin and a-talkin with the lord?
except the stubborn devils who came out
I rocked away out on the ocean
and such good daring coursed into my heart,
Each time the past comes back to haunt me so
which from me thus hath torn away my leaves,
The moonshiner's waitin' at the still
bristling with fear, when, gazing back intent,
Now the man that walks this rocky road usually gets just what he deserves
"Whoe'er thou art, sad soul, that holdest down
Jesus is calling, calling night and day
this proud soul wished to test his strength, and hence
And on party nights when we come home she often sat and read
so that the tail may do no injury."
No more darkness no more night
since ye the things of God, which ought to be
If you ever need me, oh please let me know
tied by a chain, which downward from his neck
She called my name o'er and o'er
of this soft place, and our burned, shrivelled faces
FATHER FORGIVE THEM PLEASE.
so that his feet continuous journey made
Of stitches taken all a - round.
the livid-colored stone was full of holes,
But I got it the hard, hard way
Canto CCIX
of guilt rolled by, and great Achilles see,
and then maybe my heart
which many times so sorely hinders one,
Wondering what I could do
his wisdom and his sword accomplished much.
There was a note upon my door,
for which the maid Camilla died of wounds,
We'd meet there ev'ry Ev'nin'
as from a boar's, a tusk on either side,
There hung pictures of youth and of beauty
nay, on arriving I sat down at once.
I know I'd still want you-ooo-oo
I had not been deserted. Both its shores
"So please buy a paper from me
the utterance of those true, clear words of mine.
oh! lordy! guess I'm never gonna lose,
and they replied: "Yes, see thou nick it for him!"
Stick your head out the window and feel that southern breeze
whence, had there been more light, the next ravine
Well then she started cryin', I felt myself a'sighin',
Hence, that to him the Opponent of all ill
There's nothin' as sweet as my baby
out of her senses, barked as would a dog;
And as the crowd came passin' by
and make his will and give it legal form."
But I just go to sleep praying
he warned me to keep still, and bow before him.
there's water... cool, clear water.
who saw my Leader coming back, the sooner
And then there was a silence
Already now was I distinguishing
The way to keep a woman happy
and as we followed up the lonely path
There's nothin' as sweet as my baby
both words and blood; I therefore dropped the end,
When the Pale Horse and his rider goes by?
great kings, who here shall be like pigs in mire,
LORD I WENT TO THE DOCTOR, HE TOOK ONE LOOK,
I then rejoined my Escort; whereupon,
Lord you better keep it on your mind
If thou wouldst know who those two near thee are,
The things you didn't calculate
When I perceived at last that I had reached
Such a beautiful dream
and said: "Here under cover must thou dance,
I'm goin' down in it three times, but Lord I'm only comin' up twice
Whence I to him: "The havoc and great slaughter
He's repeating these words he was told.
Canto CCX
had first thrust out his tongue between his teeth,
Praise the Lord I saw the light.
And lo, two on the left, who naked were
When God dips His love in my heart
did I remove my eyes. For as their prongs
Just say God called home your Ra-amblin' Man
As doth a bull, who from his leash breaks free
Now my pappy was a fireman and my mammy dear,
Five times rekindled, and as often quenched,
Now the man that walks this rocky road usually gets just what he deserves
down to the opening of the lowest well,
Oh, they'll never ever take her love from me.
As doves, when called by their desire, come flying
On a stone, these words were written
justly doth every woe proceed from him.
The old cow's standin' by the Bull Durham sign
Thy very language makes thee manifest
That I was glad to see you go
Now wends his way along a narrow path,
You know friends I wonder--
was nothing to the clawing, for at times
If you love me half as much as I love you
his legs; the rest of him remained within.
Today the tempest rolls high
what boots it thee to make a screen of me?
But I got to the river so lonesome I wanted to die, oh Lord
ere Chiarentana feel the summer heat;
Many a night I've cried over you
from tuft to tuft he afterward descended
Well Lord I got em,
More fearful of the abyss I then became,
down behind the trees and the moon is slowly rising
Already had I wholly given myself
There's be no pain or sorrow, no tears will e'er be shed
"Art thou that Virgil, then, that fountain-head
But nobody's lonesome for me.
'gainst me inflamed the minds of every one;
Of a love I thought was true
hereafter break on him; heed other things,
(Mind your own business)
I fear lest he may now have strayed so far,
When the seals are broken and names are read aloud
he led me in among the hidden things.
Then like the blind man that God gave back his sight
which poureth forth so broad a stream of speech?"
Mindin' other people's business seems to be high-toned
because I lent to his unfinished phrase
cause I'm cryin' for you dear
Canto CCXI
down in that gloomy ditch in different heaps.
Last night I dreamed of heaven and I saw my mother there
that I may somewhat vent the pain that fills
Got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes,
the Romans took, because of its great throng,
Out on the corner standin' so bold
have I your doings and your honored names
Lord you better keep it on your mind
"Into this blind world let us now descend!"
And this is what I heard my neighbor say:
and each is swathed by that wherewith he burns."
Got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes,
As toward them I was holding up my brows,
Sneak it on over (move it on over)
while yet, as now it is, the wind is hushed.
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart?
But tell me: at the time of tender sighs,
Then you'll moanin'; Moa-oanin' The Blues.
the two entwining serpents with his rod,
Waitin' for a call from a big quiz show
which leadeth one aright o'er every path.
I saw the light I saw the light
And he to me: "Why doth thine intellect
You said that you no longer loved me
and when he had me wholly on his breast,
When the Pale Horse and his rider goes by?
forever in that timelessly dark air,
And teach them how to bow their heads
but Virgil said: "At what art gazing still?
It made you stop and realize
when at the stars he gazed, or at the sea.
For they know not what they do
with their own selves, nor let them touch the plant,
Well, if you mind your own business, you sure won't be minding mine.
and when in great rage he had bitten it,
All you want to do is sit around and pout
't is now abandoned like a thing outworn.
And out in the darkness the whippoorwills cry.
and changes so his purpose through new thoughts,
Gathered 'round him all his buddies
which overcame a hemisphere of gloom.
Your baby's gonna tear your playhouse down
"So may your seed eventually repose,"
And I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Livin'.
awhile, and then, as though disdainfully,
And he drowses dead mother's ring from his finger
I noted them so well when they were chosen,
I could give you all the blame
Canto CCXII
He carried me to Minos, and the latter
He spoke of his angel, a dear baby girl
and other straights, as soon as I was up,
If you can't treat me right then get out of my life
and signalled to it to approach the edge,
CAUSE HE'S A BULKY STUBORN FOOL
the Poet, who was death-like pale, began,
Left my darlin' alone,
of poor Sabellus' and Nassidius' fate,
That might have been happy some day
start to attack, or be reviewed, and even,
This prisoner here before you is a social enemy
things that are far from us; to that extent
If you're countin' on me like i'm countin' on you
Ah, Genoese! ye men estranged from all
And if I didn't go, I believe I'd blow my stack
and led me to the bush, which all in vain
And I'm contented just to roam
how I could ever keep my own face dry,
IT'S OVER NOW AND I'M SO GLAD,
experience of that world behind the sun
There's nothin' as sweet as my baby
behind us: "Stay your feet, O ye that run
We lived in a place
might each his blessing give, if there he went.
I saw a young man kneelin' there
by often passing his left hand before him,
I've just been to heaven with someone so true I dreamed about mama last night
up yonder, in a vale I lost my way,
Where the soul........never dies
did I remove my eyes. For as their prongs
You got me chasin' Rabbits, walkin' on my hands
I was deprived; and still the way offends me.
And, honey, -- I'm -- Just -- Waitin' -- for -- you.
among whom avarice works its mastery."
FOR WHEN GOD CALLS, FROM HIS HOME UP ON HIGH,
of Angels who did not rebel, nor yet
On her little face was a look of despair,
then let Caprara and Gorgona move,
You say get out and I'd better stay gone
that, Florence, thou art even now in pain!"
You better heed this warning,
who 'neath the rocks that form Mount Aventine
If your hungry heart forgets, let there be no sad regrets
the slope, to what pain are ye coming?
We wanted wealth to call our own
"A different course from this must thou pursue,"
She's long gone, and now I'm lonesome blue
Canto CCXIII
that ye should know each other's veiled desires?"
For they know not what they do
But I remained to look upon the throng,
'Cause I just don't like this way of livin'.
as to the notes of storks they set their teeth.
Will come from the sky
Whereat the spirit writhed with both his feet;
When you're tired of breaking other hearts
It seems, if well I hear, that ye behold
Got pounds of candy kisses, but I can't spare an ounce
"In this thing I was not alone, nor surely
A picture from the past came slowly stealing
It made a sound, as it had been a drum;
His heart went to heaven,at the first fall of snow
Round, therefore, is the girdle which remains
Then like the blind man that God gave back his sight
for seeing whom I glory in myself.
ONE TIME YOU KNOW I LOVED YOU TRUE,
as Ephialtes quickly shook at this.
Call back my Rose, Rose of San Antone
so that his blood befouled his face, cried out:
My sister married a brakeman and it ain't no joke,
and Val Camí²nica, the Pennine Alp
If you can't treat me right then get out of my life
ought to be met by deeds without a word."
For just that weak-minded I feel."
Bestiality, and how Incontinence
She left this world with a smile on her face
Of all wrong-doing which in Heaven wins hate
They all hung on the wall but the saddest of all
"therefore unburden thee of all thy sadness,
The Holy One so dear
before they come to giving blows and wounds;
Cause her daddy had gone far away,
must, while I live, be in my words perceived.
You're just tryin'
I say that we had reached a barren plain,
If you love me half as much as I love you
when closed shall be the gateway of the future."
With the sweetest how you are,
is being burned, and at the other drips
And now I'm lost, too late to pray
A wild beast, Cerberus, uncouth and cruel,
I know that I would never be this blue
who helped Amphion build the walls of Thebes,
Where the soul of man never dies
He was a haughty person in the world;
Please let her know that I was saved.
Canto CCXIV
and see that with thy feet thou trample not
Thru tears I watch young lovers
Toward us they came, and each of them cried out:
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
and when to heaven its horses rose erect,
God knows it died the day you left
the good companion which, beneath the breastplate
Well then she started cryin', I felt myself a'sighin',
I now was where the booming of the water,
AND YA LIGHT OF LOVE IS SHININ' BRIGHT
"Now tell me, pray, how great the treasure was,
Where the soul........never dies.
so that his feet continuous journey made
This is the dreaded hour
make you afraid to show yourselves to me."
You know ev'rything comes to a standstill
alloweth none to pass along her way,
That you're ready to meet
more than a year before Aeneas so
Just trusting you - was my great sin
This side and that, upon the dark, stone floor,
Yes, i'm goin' back to dixie, that's the place i long to be,
her Polydorus lying on the beach,
You'll stand in God's Kingdom, When The Book Of Life Is Read.
with head erect and with such raging hunger,
So - after all, ever'thing's in purty good shape."
because he wished to see too far ahead,
I'm Free because you wanted it that way
and all that was there once, could not avail
So I'll follow all the way
the world to Chaos hath been oft reduced;
I thought of you Brother and of the old homestead
I 'll speak of what I else discovered there.
Why should I pay, tell me why should I cry
"I shall not gallop after thee, in case
His Garments were sackled, all tattered and torn
that from the neck of each there hung a pouch,
Oh! Plea-ease - don't call me darlin'
I could not hear what he proposed to them;
Be careful of stones that you throw.
so greatly, that the memory of my terror
His life's blood almost gone
my Leader cried to me: "Beware, beware!"
Her mama said: "No-o, she's my only daughter,"
"Dost thou, perhaps, think Athens' duke is here,
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you...
girdles the woeful city round about,
Your wedding day will be tomorrow
Canto CCXV
here was the place for us to ford the ditch.
But today I'm saying my first prayer
his sails and coil his ropes, what hitherto
This story happened
for which thou didst not fear to seize by fraud,
No more darkness no more night
Before me there was naught created, save
With your dying breath
come weeping silently, and at the pace,
Lord I tried and tried, to keep her satisfied
that every person in thee may be drowned!
He died with the papers under his head
Ye' ve made yourselves a god of gold and silver;
Cause her daddy had gone far away,
A painted people found we there below,
The old cow's standin' by the Bull Durham sign
entangled, when the mast breaks; even so,
I'm going home, I'm going home
tell me if courtesy and worth abide
Perhaps I'll sleep the whole night through I may be different then
of all self-trust, and as he sighed he said:
And the burglar Just Waitin' for night.
Then he to me: "Though thou pull out my hair,
It'll be fought at Armageddon, it shall be a sad, sad day.
which waits for every man that fears not God.
Let's pretend that time has stopped and I didn't go away
up to the river I abstained from speech.
For always when we'd step aside she'd call and we'd reply
there is to see, than what thou seest here."
And with the dawn I'll wake and yawn
by help of one who now is "˜on the fence.'
Won't it be so sweet, to rest at Jesus' feet
Then, having raised my brows a little higher,
For that day when Christ shall come
Thereat she ceased to speak, and I began:
I got a feelin' called the blues, oh Lord
hence in the second circle make their nest
He stood all alone with his head bowed down
when I direct my mind to what I saw,
How she cried when I left her
with wings outspread, intent on seizing us.
When it rains - it wets ever'thing we got
Further along we went, to where the ice
SO SELFISH ARE WE, FOR SILVER AND GOLD,
which seemed from human privies to have come.
And you can call me any time
And in like fashion suffer in this ditch
Every fuss with a woman has got the same ole end
Canto CCXVI
I 'll carry with me to thy lasting shame."
A neighbor was passing my garden one time
"What saidst thou? Held? Is he not still alive?
Alone and forsaken by fate and by man
am come to where much wailing smiteth me.
Swing wide the gate and leave it open
with novel hues, and generated hair
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
and that high peak from which the Tiber springs."
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
and extricate us from this trench's bed."
Boy you can't win no matter if you're right
The sinner then, who understood, feigned not,
You know that you're the one to blame
leaving behind them horrible contempt!"
I love you still - you win again.
can not be made, because the sixth arch yonder
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ YOU SWAT AN LOOSE THE RING
for though she breed chelỳdri, jí culi,
It was there I knew I'd love you forever
And now, I pray thee, tell me who thou art,
Jesus is calling, calling night and day
And like a man who ponders while he acts,
I've never seen a night so long
for all his pain, seems not to shed a tear.
Up there no tears will blind my eyes
you taught me how man makes himself eternal;
I'll guarantee you boys I didn't get them there lyin' at home in the bed
there lamentations, moans and shrieks are heard;
Just come along with me
he said: "By other roads and other ferries
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.
who helped Amphion build the walls of Thebes,
When she passes that Nashville tower you can hear that whistle whine
thine ears to my announcement ope, and hear:
For it's written that the greatest men never get too big to cry
"that, as thou seest, I have hither come,
Cry, oh, lord.
contemptuous it appeared of all repose;
By the singin' waterfall
that art concealed down yonder, thy Romagna
Well Lord I got 'em,
and who through their surprise forgot their pain.
Like echoes from the blue
with gentle fall dilated flakes of fire,
You'll be broke but I'll be broker tonight we're settin' the woods on fire
said Minos, giving up, on seeing me,
Just like a blind man I wandered along
Canto CCXVII
of lesser suffering, ever comfort them.
So that you and I could live
as in a callous spot,
But we were all too young back then to understand the reason why
His eyes were downcast, and his eyebrows shorn
I could smile and say that I don't care
"who took to bloodshed and to plundering.
To a land of groans and pain
Of sire and son I mutual rebels made;
I can see the light of day
sealeth both Sodom and Cahors, and him
Have you been true all along
so that my sight advanced not far; but here
Down the aisle with someone else you're walking
There never was an earthquake strong enough
And ever since she tore 'em down
If, once as beautiful as ugly now,
Cause I'm writin' your name down on every page
remove for me the hard veils on my face,
The time now ain't long; when the Saviour will come
and ere they land upon the other side,
Now I got rockin' chair money
and he who made our ladder with his hair,
But I bowed that time, he got started to preach
and to Sichaeus' ashes broke her faith;
Now, honey, let's go honky tonkin'
as an old tailor at his needle's eye.
Oh! Plea-ease - don't call me darlin'
it spread its hind feet out along his thighs,
And yet there's nothin' wrong with me
where greatest Peter's follower hath his seat.
You got me chasin' Rabbits, walkin' on my hands
we 're lost, and only hurt to this extent,
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
To those swift-footed beasts we then drew near;
And I don't mean maybe
whereby, as still appears, the sky was burned;
Oh the rain is slowly fallin',
a servant strong when in a good lord's presence.
Still hears my broken song of love
adulterate for silver and for gold;
Moon in all your splendor knows only my heart
it rushes headlong down; and so, perhaps,
You'll toss around
the memory of them freezes up my blood.
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
which next appeared before me, of a Lion,
A slave too long to a heart of stone
Canto CCXVIII
while southward now the nights pursue their way;
Where the soul of man never dies
From him we had departed now, when two
Now my heart is broke it's sad and it's sore
the enterprise so hastily commenced.
Won't you sometimes think of me
And I to him: "Among such men as these
I can see your mansion on the hill
There sighs and wails and piercing cries of woe
I just don't like the things you're doin'
out to their feeding drives his tender sheep.
I thought I was right but I must of been wrong
devised by him to cast himself below!"
You thought she'd care for you and so you acted smart
he told me thereupon, "whose name is Crete,
Cause you can't mend my broken heart
I had his hair wrapped round my hand already,
And I'll set as far back as I can."
thus to remove the blame she had incurred.
KAW-LIGA - A, just stands there as lonely as can be
displays its theft, though each a sinner hides.
I've been lonely night and day ever since you went away
And he to me replied: "I have no knowledge
There remains the Glory Fountain
and given it that vibration which the tongue,
Can't you hear the Blessed Saviour Callin' You?
still shouting each to each their vile refrain;
You are on my lonely mind.
before the water's noise was so near by,
I love you still - you win again.
will cause thy triumph on the lofty seat.'
He was tortured and slain
holds her therein the more discreet and just;
He was only a tramp found dead on the street.
And he made answer: "That was Fra Gomita,
to water... cool, clear water.
by often passing his left hand before him,
Baby, we're really in love.
keeping the other under grievous weights,
Cry, oh, lord.
for which thou didst not fear to seize by fraud,
For they know not what they do
With just the storm and fury wherewith dogs
Why, oh why - should you desert me
And my wise Teacher thereupon made signs
To live with Him up there around the throne
so that our sense may first get used a little
Then will you be ready to go home
Canto CCXIX
and gone the sight of all things save the beast.
Oh mother I'm leavin' you here alone
thou 'lt see him wholly from his girdle up."
And as I watched, I cried in sorrow
between Savena and Reno to say sipa;
Some don't seem to care
the arms he plied he moveth now no more."
Somebody else stood by your side
and, turning round, descended on our left
How she cried when I left her
A painted people found we there below,
I give my all and sit and yearn
Averrhoí¨s, who made the famous comment.
Other arms will hold you tight
he heeded with so glad a look throughout
Baby, it's time for me to rearrange
while, equally, the white part dies away.
No tear-........... dimmed eyes
If yonder thou attain, thou 'lt clearly see
To drift from pillar to post
although the master did not make them there
Won't you sometimes think of me
thou that, perhaps, wilt shortly see the sun,
From the Dear Saviour; who's pleading today
a cave, from which his view was not cut off,
Will you be ready to go, ready to go home
Thereat he laid his hand upon the jaw
'Neath a cold gray tomb of stone
unhelped by Will Divine and favoring fate?
To walk through that front door
my wise Guide leads me by a different path
I guess Jack's still waitin' for Jill.
thou hast beside thee him of Beccherí¬a,
When God dips His love in my heart
Have Libicocco go, and Draghignazzo;
I'll listen for whistle
of conscious purity, emboldens man.
'Cause if you mind your business, then you won't be mindin' mine.
whose means are small for taking in so much.
for water... cool, clear water.
begin to break upon mine ears; I now
If your ever in the south lands and want to see the scenes
as they then disappeared; my Teacher, therefore,
And we'd listen to the waters
My Leader then took hold of me at once,
Go and leave me alone with the blues
who lights the world, least hides his face from us,
Beneath the stars all alone
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on either hand unto the point opposed,
Of a heartbroken mother and baby
Downward I looked, and yet my living eyes
Now I have traded the wrong for the right
but I was yonder, where assent was given
'N' the hitch-hiker's waitin' for a ride
from Beelzebub, as e'er his tomb extends,
Sundown and sorrow have found me
which proved a seed of evil for the Jews."
I've just been to heaven with someone so true I dreamed about mama last night
in time to see the unbecoming havoc,
The world with me might sympathize
When on the face of some I set mine eyes,
That their gold and silver will melt away
but rather under many suns survive,
THEN IT'S USELESS TO YOU, IF YOU'VE STRAYED FROM THE FOLD,
and both my parents were of Lombardy,
Another man's wife
are evermore before me, nor in vain;
And that's the only thing that counts
As from the ancient bridge we watched the troop,
Whom God has called back to the fold
went down and entered on an uncouth path.
I like candy, I like cake, I like jam but goodness sakes
When I made answer I began: "Alas!
Now the last scene is that by the river
bearing within us fumes of surliness;
Hinky-dinky, (Rootie Tootie)
"˜I 'm not the one, I 'm not the one thou thinkest!'"
Speak once again of my love, my own
Then to the Poet I: "Now was there ever
(like everybody else)
before my age had rounded out its noon.
The ones it hurts the most
by means of which we two may issue hence,
You go get yourself a man that wants to fight
words of still greater weight would I employ;
And I know, people across the United States
The latter streaked their faces with their blood,
I'll always be the same old pal,
Then he to me: "Thou thinkest thou art still
And way up there He'll hear our prayer
"from all directions they returned both times;
till I can't move a toe
sits where the shore lies lowest round about.
I know that you'll never be true
and on the border of the broken bank
The story to me you revealed
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turn back, to cause their suffering to increase;
And I won't be home no more
It grows into a sapling and wild tree;
I'll even make believe I never loved you
see how he writhes, and utters not a word!
days we could recall if you would only try dear
"Before thou enter any further, know
Life can be sad when you're livin' all alone
Thence to the bound we came, where from the third
And we'll go Honky Tonkin', Honky Tonkin'
Then people I beheld who from the stream
It's that Pan American on her way to New Or-leans.
no help; their nails kept scraping down their scabs,
Its gotta stop, I don't mean plea-ease
the heads of us two wretched, weary brothers!"
Too many parties and too many pals will break your heart someday
my answer, adding: "In that hollow place,
The Angel of Death
to tell me who he is, before he "˜skips'!"
These words he said with tears in his eyes
When by that gathering I had thus been eyed,
When I get to Glory, I'm gonna sing, sing, sing.
Then, through an opening in the rock he issued,
I knew you couldn't win, I told you from the start
its center hath, and on which Dis is seated,
Of stitches taken all a - round.
down to the opening of the lowest well,
Memories are makin' me blue
This is Megaera here upon the left;
His frail body trembled, he spoke soft and low
His fixed eyes thereupon he turned askance;
There was a note upon my door,
vengeance upon the arrogant rebellion."
I could tell this world I've found a new love
he of the evil garden's fruit, who here
All the way from the gates of Eden to the Battle of Armageddon
Then wholly to my Leader's side I drew,
NO ONE KNOWS THE TORTURE I WENT THROUGH,
The little brooks which toward the Arno run
I got the lovesick blues
turned from those weary spirits back again.
That's where I long to be
this proud soul wished to test his strength, and hence
Can you truthfully say
but be not silent, if thou issue hence,
My darkest night will turn to day
"Thou wouldst that I renew a hopeless grief,
Where the cotton grows and the suwanee flows,
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if lashed and beaten by opposing winds.
She took me in her arms
"Art thou still foolish as the others are?
I'll have a new body
And to the world should one of you return,
She drinks and she talks quite a lot
my heart forebode, thou grievest not already;
Darling let's turn back my years and go back to yesterday
it harmed thee not, when in the dark wood's depths."
Your memory is chained to me
it seemed the one who by the pain was pierced;
You better call her sweet mama,
And then I said: "˜O brothers, ye who now
So pack it on over (move it on over)
"Into this bottom of the dismal shell
'Cause nothin's ever gonna be alright nohow
of that disgusting and dishevelled wench,
Tomorrow I'll be right back plowin' settin' the woods on fire
and clinched itself so well in front of him,
why don't you mind your own business
making a horrid roar beneath us; hence,
If you're lovin' me like i'm lovin' you
weeps and is saddened in his every thought;
Trying to take me back please
when I beheld three faces to his head!
That you're ready to meet
but that hereafter sight alone suffice thee,
With such tender care and love.
"Philosophy" said he to me, "points out
Everybody says you let me down
then, sighing, and with weeping voice, he said:
She said, "son, please don't leave me
slaps himself on the thigh, returns in doors,
Somebody else stood by your side
mantled already with that planet's rays
But when I got all thru
behind me, is still visible above.
But nobody dreams about me
when we had taken some few steps, we came
Now my gal's short and stubby,
he asked of me: "Who were thine ancestors?"
When you're wearing striped britches,
and after, in the eternal, steep us thus!
Well I'm in love I'm in love with a beautiful gal
the great Refusal made. I understood
cause I'm cryin' for you dear
And he to me: "That is the ancient soul
Lord I love to hear her when she calls me sweet da-a-addy
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even as my Leader had commanded me,
(Mind your own business)
it pleased my Teacher to reveal to me
Hunky-dory, (Rootie Tootie)
with gentle fall dilated flakes of fire,
How come you find so many faults with me
was covered over with a spotted hide,
The midnight train is whining low
My flesh had hardly been made bare of me,
I know I'd still want you.
But thou, to such sore trouble why return?
Why Don't You Love Me like you used to do.
takes from them all the power of leaving it.
NO NOT NOW, (no not now), NO NOT NOW, (no not now),
that e'er the lower was my steady foot.
Now it's a shame the way she keeps a good man broke.
by means of which we two may issue hence,
On the dixie cannonball, on the dixie cannonball,
it is not fitting that sweet figs bear fruit.
I saw all the joys of life fade far away
one reads; and as to that one his king yielded,
There's no room in my heart for the blues
had we yet gone, when I beheld a fire,
Drifting too far from the shore (from the shore)
the wounded man together drew his feet.
You give away your kisses
one on his head, the other on his soles;
And then she failed to shine my shoes,
which keeps them burning, maketh them look red,
Filled with selfishness and greed
stands still at all, lies prone a hundred years,
My Son Calls Another Man Daddy
A long time will it hold its forehead up,
Move it on over (move it on over)
which hath the world's good things thus in her claws?"
No matter how I struggle and strive
had read this person's name to me already;
The trees played the waltz of the wind
from every country come together here;
God help her she leaps, oh there's no one to weep
To sexual vice so wholly was she given,
Run along run along don't pester me further
even as my Leader had commanded me,
Yes I received your note today
into the middle of the boiling fen.
Than to live in this world in a house of gold
and whom up in the Latin land I 've seen,
But you're as sweet as you can be
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the undiscerning life which made them foul,
If you're lovin' me like i'm lovin' you
Moans I heard uttered upon every side,
When He says come unto Me, will your soul be clean and free
soiled by the self same sin when in the world.
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ THAT MULE CAN'T GET NO REST
when still corruptible, the immortal world,
Don't come back now on your knees
on one side, and deprived of it the other,
NO FRIENDS IT WON'T SAVE, YOUR POOR WICKED SOUL.
nothing at all did I discern therein.
Oh listen to that whistle scream
And she who, yonder, with dishevelled locks
Just how many homes are broken tonight
even so on all sides did those sinners stay;
I'm a long gone daddy I don't need you anyhow
Then, when a little beam had made its way
Since the day that we met you've been nothin' but worry
and when he wholly felt himself in play,
Go and leave me alone with the blues
I swear to thee, that through that coarse, dark air
For he was the one ray of sunshine
"Though I get angry, be not thou dismayed,"
We'll take in all the honky tonks tonight we're havin' fun
Round me he looked, as if he wished to see
Up there I'll meet my darlin'
There sighs and wails and piercing cries of woe
To walk through that front door
Let us go on, for it is willed in Heaven
She said, "son, please don't leave me
making such havoc of him, that therefor
Be prepared to go, there's one thing I know
in the beginning moved those beauteous things;
She may have forsaken some other like me
"the reason for my gazing there, thou wouldst,
Like a piece of driftwood on the sea
The people in it were more numerous once,
Put on my Sunday suit, but I ain't goin' nowhere
the terror-stricken man, "to see or hear
You'll toss around
with sorely troubled breath upon the shore,
She picks up her receiver when she knows it's my ring
Lethe thou 'lt see, but there, outside this cave,
Where the soul........never dies.
for sympathy, new pains, and scourgers new,
She made me for my money and she made me blue
't is well that, while he rages, thou descend."
My hair's still curly and my eyes are still blue
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We Jovial Friars were, and Bolognese;
When I know you don't love me
I knew not one of them; but I perceived
From the Great Salt Lakes of Utah to California's golden shore
oft do the poor profaners turn about.
How many fingers do I hold up
with gentle fall dilated flakes of fire,
Now if you go out and start a playing around
and if thereof thou wouldst have pledge or proof,
And once she told me when you're grown to women and to men
It seems, if well I hear, that ye behold
I've been a fool about you, for way too long
his fellows were, of greatest note and rank.
Higgama, jiggama, horney cuff,
so may thy name maintain itself on earth."
'Cause I'm satisfied with you.
from race to race, from one blood to another,
When you'll be laid
No cask, indeed, by loss of middle-board
I have the invitation that you sent me
We turned our backs upon the woeful vale
I can't buy no beer.
And I to him: "Point out and show to me,
But where I go, I always know
keep still there, Scarmiglioní«!" Then to us:
The trees played the waltz of the wind
nor different is the speed with which a duck
So baby, if you wanna shine
there the Palladium's penalty is paid."
That we should have admitted before
that I, if but my conscience chide me not,
I don't aim to meddle in your business I'm just tryin' to save you an awful price
so from the broken twig together issued
Wait for the light to shine wait for the light to shine
And now, while toward that center we were moving,
On the dixie cannonball, on the dixie cannonball,
by pirates, nay, nor by the Argolic folk.
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.
And they, when we had stopped, began again
Now, You're Gonna Change or I'm a-gonna leave.
free from all torment in this world of woe,"
There's nothin' as sweet as my baby
and with his oar beats whoso takes his ease.
On the Tennessee Border.
that I knew how to raise me in the air;
As they rippled soft and low
Let us leave him alone, nor talk in vain;
The mean old freight train blues.
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who set me at my former sins again;
To count like Caesar when Caesar's dead
and this man here Ruggieri, the Archbishop;
with a manner sort of awkward and countenance grotesque.
Commingled are they with that worthless choir
and don't go to criticizn' the one what knows the best.
now one and now another, till their branch
So try to repent and ask for forgiveness
which rocky was, narrow and hard to climb,
You ain't never known to be wrong
which even up there unpleasant made its stench.
I'll crawl back to her on my knees
permit no falsehood to defraud the truth."
Deep within my heart lies a melody
a highwayman, nor I a robber's soul.
You gave the best years of your life dear
More would I say, but am afraid lest that one
And then go home and pull my hair
The other two looked on, and each exclaimed:
Yes I knew the day I lost you
which, crossing mountains, breaks through walls and armor;
Whom God has called back to the fold
"to where thou sayest usury offends
Cause I love to rock, yeah rock
I yielded then, repenting and confessing,
And he looked so satisfied
the arch's summit, where the crag is highest.
Lead you to that promise land
'T is true I said to him, although in jest,
I'm gettin' sick and tired of the same ole bull
I and my Leader then passed further on
All the sunshine, all is gone
is not extinguished, art thou all the more
(like everybody else)
Thereat we made our way adown that heap
But mosey around with my head in my hands
"We, both of us, whom thou beholdest here
All my life I've been so lonesome
in fashion; these he flapped in such a way,
and these silver tears you're shedding now, is just interest on the loan.
by every one to do away with Florence,
That I was glad the day you set me free
I leave the gall, and for the sweet fruit go,
I haven't had the chance that other kids had
more than seven times, and extricated me
And all I do is moan ...
my heart forebode, thou grievest not already;
She read me the Bible like she used to do I dreamed about mama last night
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they are of every other destiny.
I've tried and tried to run and hide
His head is formed of finest gold, his arms
As you travel day by day, down life's long highway
the peasant, lacking provender, gets up,
You only build me up to let me down
And now, I pray thee, tell me who thou art,
Jesus died for me long ago
and many others; and He made them blest;
But nobody's lonesome for me.
so from the band where Dido is they issued,
No matter where our footsteps wander
and, while thus going, move thine eyes around."
But that won't worry me
I tell no more, nor further answer thee."
We'll let bygones be forgotten souvenirs
or Alexander, or their brother, here,
Today I passed you on the street
by those wild beasts, that hate the tilled estates
I heard that lonesome whistle blow
of that seventh circle, all alone I went,
Where will you live after death
thus cause the scales that balance them to creak.
If you're meant for me like i'm meant for you
Lethe thou 'lt see, but there, outside this cave,
As I helped him cross the highway
The people that are lying in the tombs,
But sleep won't come
Among this cruel and most dismal swarm
Daniel in the lion's den,
Commingled are they with that worthless choir
It'll be fought at Armageddon, it shall be a sad, sad day.
who formerly possessed Hautefort, that thou,
Thank God for ev'ry flower and each tree
he, whether it were wrath or conscience bit him,
My love for you has turned to hate
speaking and weeping shalt thou see together.
There's nothin' as sweet as my baby
so gently, locking and unlocking it,
You're drifting to far from the shore
then at thy pleasure shalt thou hurry me."
THAT OLE MOON ABOVE, WAS JUST MADE FOR LOVE,
near where the marble we had traversed ended.
But it's sure better than no house at all
O'er those dead bones of hers they built a town;
Life can be sad when you're livin' all alone
whoever of your world deprives himself,
How I wish I could repay
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to look at me, than at the other foul ones?"
I'll have a new body
And we rejoiced; but soon our happiness
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.
It was no palace hallway where we were,
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you.
it said to me, "recall me, if thou canst;
You're nice to me when there's no one else around
And as the stream, which is the first that eastward
NO FRIENDS IT WON'T SAVE, YOUR POOR WICKED SOUL.
mixed in a single face, where both were lost.
And he looked straight down at me
withdraw thee from those fellows that are dead."
It's hard to know another's lips will kiss you
we 're lost, and only hurt to this extent,
I bet I'll have to go and hire me someone to cry
when she, who on the waters hath her seat,
And the love light no longer shines
experience of the measureless Briareus."
I've never seen a night so long
and he replied: "Into this wild ravine
But I found I couldn't hide
down to the opening of the lowest well,
KAW-LIGA - A, too stubborn to ever show a sign
are here within; I speak not of the rest."
Oh, the hearts of men shall fail them, there'll be gnashing of the teeth.
If thou consider this opinion well,
Cause he's just a helpless servant to a master that he serves
when with his followers Hannibal took flight,
Praise the Lord I saw the light.
nailed up; whereat, without a word, I looked
I've grown so used to you somehow
of people, that I never would have thought
The chimney fell down - just yesterday
he thus is called by my high Tragedy;
We don't get nearer or further or closer
and with that little company, by whom
Up there I'll meet my darlin'
and that, which ran not back, but was retained,
Nothing seems to turn out right
a "˜No' for money there becomes a "˜Yes.'"
Before it is too late
There, to escape all human fellowship,
"When they get down to pray, I'll just get up and leave
soon to thy vision will it be revealed."
Don't say you care, you know that you'll be lying
and one is here forbidden too long a stay."
We'll go Honky Tonkin' 'round this town.
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the lovely manner which hath done me honor.
That I will never know contentment
I liked; I 'm Vanni Fucci, called the Beast;
Oh don't you know that Jesus died to wash your sins away
which, crossing mountains, breaks through walls and armor;
I said I wouldn't tell it to a living soul
unhelped by Will Divine and favoring fate?
I'll tell you right now, Lord my bucket's 'bout full
And I, who was intensely gazing there,
Paved with all the tribulations
While on this quest, for which thou giv'st him praise,
When leaves begin to die?
for vulgar is the wish to hear such things."
God why must these living dead know pain with every breath
around the bank, each from his navel down."
When you whispered, "Dear, I worship thee!"
had given me pleasure I thereat disliked;
Well I left my home down on the rural route
who had his gorget cut in two by Florence.
That's home sweet home to me,
And even greater honor still they did me,
For a life of sin I have paid the cost
a meaning worse, perhaps, than he intended.
Someone has fell by the way
for vulgar is the wish to hear such things."
Then all God's faithful children will raise up from the dead
when wrath or other passion seizes thee!
DO YOU WANT TO MARRY, GOT NO TIME TO TARRY,
chasing the wolf and wolfings toward the mount
Love like ours should never die so darling let's turn back the years
I do not think that there was greater fear
His heart went to heaven,at the first fall of snow
But tell me if among these passing people
I want to know each step you take that I may walk the same
hence, trembling, I clung closer with my thighs.
Well shut my mouth, i'm a'headin' south, on the dixie cannon-ball
Therefore go on; I 'll follow at thy skirts,
You smiled when your heart told you to weep
"all those that perish in the wrath of God
I've got the freight train blues, lordy, lordy, lordy,
in India's torrid regions, as they fell
So baby, just come along with me
so blocks me, that I cannot see beyond,
And I'm durn near - down with the flu
and spans it not; but ye can climb the ruins,
That I was glad the day you set me free
Alecto, she who weepeth on the right;
If you'll be a baby to me
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And my good Leader, who now reached his breast,
We're gonna have a new baby about the first of May
A shade then at the tomb's uncovered mouth
If you'll follow in His light
"To Fra Dolcino do thou therefore say,
Straight is the gate and narrow the way
and both of these, if one would tell the truth,
When my life here is o'er I'm going home
she turns her sphere, and blest enjoys herself.
Long is the road that leads you
I therefore said: "Now, Teacher, grant to me
With tears in my eyes, dear, I begged you to stay
and tore it, that he carried off a piece.
LORD I NEVER KNEW A MAN COULD FEEL SO BAD,
and changes so his purpose through new thoughts,
Oh, all the things that might have been
I saw Electra with companions many,
Six more miles to the graveyard,
So bitter 't is, that death is little worse;
Won't it be so sweet, to rest at Jesus' feet
Herewith his mouth he twisted, sticking out
When the Pale Horse and his rider goes by?
I saw, so frozen in a single hole,
I just keep Moanin'
while down between his legs his entrails hung,
For someday you'll find yourself alone.
a devil in his body, as did also
I love you still - you win again.
if he had only had his groin cut off
But I bowed that time, he got started to preach
as would a person who is waked by force;
Tote it on over (move it on over)
they go to judgment, each one in his turn;
ALL I DO IS SET AND CRY,
And he then, as he beat upon his pate:
In that fair homeland we'll know no parting beyond the sunset for evermore
for see, thou now art neither two nor one."
My broken heart cries out for you
Rhea selected it, and when he wept,
Just stay close to Jesus and journey in His light
which from Vercelli slopes to Marcabí².
'neath the palms tonight he's sleepin'
when with his followers Hannibal took flight,
Tears fallin' down your pretty cheeks,
the banks, which are not burned, afford a path;
Heading for the pearly gates for there my savior waits
his wisdom and his sword accomplished much.
So you fool ev'ry new love you find
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his sails and coil his ropes, what hitherto
Left my darlin' alone,
Upon oneself may one lay violent hands,
But I don't take no one's advice
thou hadst it not so ready; but just so,
Of a family I once knew.
so, looking down from hence, I make out nothing."
More precious than diamonds and gold
down to the ground the cruel monster fell.
He didn't talk like he thought much of me.
and wherefore doth our sin torment us so?
The lovelight in your eyes has faded
with outlook and intent so similar,
You're Window Shoppin' that's all.
and one is here forbidden too long a stay."
Gathered 'round him all his buddies
move toward the mountain on the other edge.
Callin' You?, (Callin' You?)
and from a sturdy thorn-tree plucked a twig,
That we shared together in the used to be
because of which both shores were all aquake,
'Cause I won't be home no more.
Two men are just, but are not heeded there;
That I'd be happy if we'd part
when we a band of spirits met, who came
My land's so poor - so hard and "yeller"
and has on that side all her hairy skin,
(Mind your own business)
shooting each soul that from the blood emerges
I covered the crushed, broken body and said:
If thou wouldst know who those two near thee are,
And I've been down that road before
Thereat I turned around, and saw before me,
I been in the doghouse so doggone long
and thence withdraw a soul from Judas' ring.
He sounds too blue to fly
when three shades separated from a group,
I know I couldn't love you as before.
From hence He drew the earliest parent's shade,
We little thought about it then for we were young and gay
Alí¨ssio Interminí¨i of Lucca art;
My land's so poor - so hard and "yeller"
and naked shades, who ran around, and bit,
Later on, swap my mon, get me a pirogue
unless it sink beneath its body's weight!
Lord you better keep it on your mind
than he will planted stay with ruddy soles;
And before you render a verdict on what this girl has done
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a spirit who can travel through the air."
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
There are no women here to sell for coin."
If you heart said testify, would the world hear your reply
were in their first life so squint-eyed in mind,
That you have been true
even if the souls of serpents we had been."
Travelin' down a lonely highway
for me Pistoia was a worthy den."
No one will miss me, after all
began again: "Why dost thou break me off?
We hid from the shower an hour or so
offensive to both eyes and nose became.
When the Angel of Death
He shall not feed on either land or wealth,
And he looked so satisfied
into eternal darkness, heat and cold.
Someday you'll call my name and I won't answer
said I, "and whom a redder flame is sucking?"
We don't get nearer or further
That dense air he kept moving from his face
I was afraid to scold her, so I just gently told her,
there found we Plutus, the great enemy.
On this road of sin are you sorrow bound
although the master did not make them there
In your loveless mansion on the hill
He answered me: "Therein are both Ulysses
His servants will bring, a ring for my finger
both old and recent, by the flames burnt in!
Now my pappy was a fireman and my mammy dear,
"˜Him of Duera' thou canst say, "˜I saw
And now we sit together - on the running board.
for short the time were for so long a talk.
I can't escape from you.
as what was here; for even if Tambernich
Not even the angels; in heaven will know
"all those that perish in the wrath of God
I'm so lonesome I could cry
as doth a bird to its recalling lure.
A song of old San Antone
And "If," continuing his previous words,
Darlin', if our romance ends, let us part the best of friends
replied the shade of that Great-hearted man,
I'm goin' down in it three times, but Lord I'm only comin' up twice
that ye should know each other's veiled desires?"
I'll never see that gal of mine
he ne'er so changed two natures, that the forms
I'd rather have you just the way that you are
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so this one called on me, as master-leech,
I thought I heard her whisper welcome home my boy
cares not to sing, we thus from bridge to bridge
Goodbye to the fields, that I used to roam
beforehand that which time brings with itself,
Last night I dreamed of heaven my eternal home sweet home
My kindly Teacher then began to say:
We'll have us a time oh brother settin' the woods on fire
They struck each other, not with hands alone,
When I got thru with all my lies
So far we were already from the wood,
But what good would it do
Hence, since he so had wished it, I began:
Got pounds of candy kisses, but I can't spare an ounce
where thou must arm thyself with fortitude!"
Well shut my mouth, i'm a'headin' south,
refuse not my request to linger here
So I don't care if tomorrow never comes.
I thus addressed him; then, when he had moved,
I'd like to tell you a story
whose tail and head were thrust between their loins,
Raised his head, we heard him say.
nor did he say a word to us; but looked
If you only loved me half as much as I love you
when still corruptible, the immortal world,
The nights are cool and I'm a fool.
from 'neath the little bridge those devils issued,
There's a mighty battle coming and it's well now on its way.
and that high peak from which the Tiber springs."
In this wicked ole world today
vermilion, as if issuing out of fire."
Take this message to my mother
no news, know nothing of your human state.
I knew you couldn't win, I told you from the start
my heart forebode, thou grievest not already;
And teach them how to bow their heads
but that hereafter sight alone suffice thee,
He fell in love with an Indian maid over in the antique store
a frightful form of Justice may be seen.
She left the sink a'saggin',
who in the figure of a cross was stretched
Wherever you may be, Thank God.
even as a snail doth with its horns; his tongue,
Jesus is calling, calling night and day
ere Atropos have caused it to move on.
I made a mistake, dear, by tellin' you lies
as far as where our human form begins.
Holds all the pain that sorrow knows
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more than a year before Aeneas so
And you're at your journey's end
And I: "Because, if I remember well,
I picked her up in a pickup truck
those cursí¨d words; for I did not believe
Rose a sad, old colored preacher from his little wooden desk
since first we entered through the outer gate,
My life with you baby has been one hard knock
One here swims otherwise than in the Serchio!
I hate to think it's all over
Thither we came, and from it in the ditch
She'll do me, she'll do you
Cassius the other is, who so big-limbed
So tell me gentlemen is it right to send her to a cell
and seeing close to her the burning flames,
The white hat, the high-heeled boots
thus cause the scales that balance them to creak.
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart?
"So may your memory never fly away
I'm a rollin stone all alone and lost
Thus shallower and shallower became
As I brushed your arm and walked so close to you
that he who comes behind moves what he touches?
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
desire of which he had so freely given.
Just remember there's a man to blame and that man might be your son
who metals falsified by alchemy;
But she went to heaven, just one year ago
who with his file had given form to it,)
Then I'll stop moanin'; Moa-oanin' The Blues.
to nether Hell I came, that other time,
Now the man that walks this rocky road usually gets just what he deserves
My kindly Teacher then began to say:
Ohio and Kentucky Tennessee and Alabam, the delta state of
Even as in autumn leaves detach themselves,
'Neath a cold gray tomb of stone
with head erect and with such raging hunger,
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
no more; but on mine ears there smote a wail,
The Angel of Death
is Aruns, who in Luni's mountain quarries,
And if it all were true
This side and that, upon the dark, stone floor,
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you...
yet give her blame amiss, and ill repute.
I guess it just don't matter now
and turning to the right along its ridge,
and I began to dashin', Gettin' out of sight,
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that in his escort were, when Love Divine
Rock my cradle once again.
I swooned away as though about to die,
Jesus is calling, calling night and day
when we two countenances still beheld
As the harbor lights shine and they shiver
but with their wisdom see into their thoughts!
But now I know I was mistaken
mixed in a single face, where both were lost.
You'll be singing blue and lonesome,
so be it that One Else forbid it not!"
Praise the Lord I saw the light.
what I became, of both of these deprived.
When God dips His love in my heart
there lamentations, moans and shrieks are heard;
He will brighten up your way
saying: "But where can Cianfa have remained?"
The light shine bright from yer window
turned back, and looked at me; and then he said:
I'm lost on the river
and 'gainst a man who storeth up no trust.
I'll have a new body
Then, after she had spoken to me thus,
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
but bore me to the summit of the arch,
Won't it be so sweet, to rest at Jesus' feet
both words and blood; I therefore dropped the end,
When the Pale Horse and his rider goes by?
"Even as thou seest that the boiling stream
Well shut my mouth, i'm a'headin' south, on the dixie cannon-ball
there is to see, than what thou seest here."
Poor ol' KAW-LIGA, he don't know what he missed
down at my feet, and two I saw with heads
One-sy, two-sy, zig-sy and
All of its tail was quivering in the void,
"My wife's been sick - the young'ns, too
as they then disappeared; my Teacher, therefore,
in a long, long while
then each turned back, when through his own half-ring
(So) never again will I knock on your door
these glassy tears, know, then, that just as soon
Like a flop-eared mule that ain't got no sense
as far as to his loins, he 's made of brass;
'neath the palms tonight he's sleepin'
saying: "Now let thy words be frank and clear."
But someday you'll wish that I still care.
shall come, and bring her to a painful death.
The light shine bright from yer window
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if thou descend so far, thou mayst behold them.
I don't aim to meddle in your business I'm just tryin' to save you an awful price
and who, when times arrive that make him lose,
Life sometimes can be so cruel that a heart will pray for death
We thus passed through with slowly moving steps
One careless step a thoughtless deed and then the misery starts
over the ashes left by Attila,
I've been a fool about you, for way too long
as did my Teacher o'er that selvage-bank,
dollar weighs ten, dollar weighs ten
and then the trench was clearly shown to me;
Should you go first and I remain for battles to be fought
great mental haste to be with me, and yet
I cried again when I reached home
a common form of death and vice of courts,
Golden hair and big blue eyes she could win a beauty prize
of man art thou, that scoldest people so?"
'Cause I know you'll break my heart.
their eyes, moist only inwardly before,
Can't you hear the Blessed Saviour Callin' You?
of strife and schism, and hence are cloven thus.
Moa-oanin' The Blues.
before my age had rounded out its noon.
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain.
ne'er with all Ethiopia did she show,
She'll do me, she'll do you
Ah, Pisa, foul reproach of those that dwell
So baby, if you wants to shine
when it perceived us pass in front of it.
So I'm satisfied with you.
around the bank, each from his navel down."
Gathered 'round him all his buddies
This one therein a lord and huntsman seemed,
Something Got A Hold Of Me (Praise God)
"Papí¨ Satí n, papí¨ Satí n, alí¨ppí«!"
Honky tonk blues,
so, one by one, the evil seed of Adam
Only a tramp was lazarus sad fate
who is that great one who seems not to mind
will leave my eyes.
seemed in her leanness laden, and had caused
Now I don't want you here anymore
that afterward thou errest in conceiving.
'Cause My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
and the other two my canto names above.
Every fuss with a woman has got the same ole end
and that the moon is now beneath our feet;
No one will miss me, after all
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its center hath, and on which Dis is seated,
But I know she waits and prays
I, Catalí n, and Loderingo he,
Up there I'll meet my darlin'
yet give her blame amiss, and ill repute.
Yeah the honky tonk blues
who at Verona run across the meadow
If she drinks while you taught her and if she smokes you showed her how
to look at me, than at the other foul ones?"
No lessening shadows shall ever creep in to make this life seem droll
repressed in him his unaccustomed hue.
There's no room in my heart for the blues
be making ready now to claw my skin."
Before it steals their fate
Even as at Arles, where marshy turns the Rhone,
Well I stopped into every place in town
Let him retrace alone his foolish road,
When my life here is o'er I'm going home
If all the people should again assemble,
That time has turned the tide
Of those things only should one be afraid,
Said the little paper boy, there on the street
I 'd be, hadst thou already been obeyed;
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
and said: "Go on, for I am strong and bold!"
There's nothin' as sweet as my baby
so that the fact may seem less strange to thee,
And you're pillows stained with tears from your blue eyes
bowed down and closed, when brightened by the sun,
"Oh! who was that brave girl so sweet?"
distress thee, for, whatever power he have,
'Cause I know you'll break my heart.
so fast, as round about the other's limbs
Go and leave me alone with these blues
have now gone by, since he was thus shut up."
I've got a blue love in my heart.
There is a mountain there, which, happy once
My tires and tubes are doin' fine but the air is showin' through
from human minds in that first world of ours,
The old cow's standin' by the Bull Durham sign
over a bubbling stream, that poureth down
Get the supper on the table
I 'll speak of what I else discovered there.
Honky tonk blues,
Goodness Divine, and loose the tangled knot."
And you got no place to go
and backward it behooved him to advance,
My neighbor then smiled and I thought:
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and he that lives without attaining it,
My sister married a brakeman and it ain't no joke,
and fit to face both Bergamasks and Brescians,
'Your soul is God's, your mem'ry mine'
formed in a circle by great broken rocks,
My life was lost in sinned but in love He took me in
But still I did not weep, nor did I answer
You know she didn't ask to be brought to
who claim that with the body dies the soul.
We took the night life off the streets and brought it in our own homes
upon his hard stiff belly with his fist.
Yet there's consolation in my heart
what spirits these are whom thou seest here?
Jesus died for me long ago
who at Verona run across the meadow
Cause I love to rock, yeah rock
is like, thou 'lt see; hence here it is not told.
Honey baby, please come home
Let us leave him alone, nor talk in vain;
But nobody's lonesome for me
was passing by, and ran along together.
Plea-ease - stay away from my heart
Let Libya and her sand no longer boast;
But we got married on the Tennessee Border.
but distant from the goat shall be the grass.
Because you're sweet dear, I want to love you
And I to him: "I 'd have thee teach me still,
As they go strollin' by
Surely he asked for naught but "˜Follow me.'
why I'd seen perhaps a thousand in my hurried southern trips.
He, in whose footprints thou dost see me tread,
I'll have a new body
Commingled are they with that worthless choir
She's a makin' nauts she's makin' time just watch her swing and sway
which breaks against the one it runs to meet,
Will pine some day
A swamp it forms which hath the name of Styx,
She drinks and she talks quite a lot
and, were not for the fire, which, arrow-like,
He never stopped prayin' for me
"That thou hast caught me in the misery
It would ease this awful pain
that with their kingdom shattered was their king;
I thought of you Brother and of the old homestead
and standing up erect, my rested eyes
Sweep it on over (move it on over)
before He placed the Keys in his control?
That I'd be happy if we'd part
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"It needs must be that thou reveal thy name,
I can't escape from you.
One of the wretches of the icy crust
We'll be strong enough to face our last goodbye
break out and rush upon a poor old man,
You say get out and I'd better stay gone
"He listens well, who giveth heed to this."
I heard that lonesome whistle blow
pray tell me who ye are, and of what people;
As I helped him cross the highway
and this man here Ruggieri, the Archbishop;
And he said, "Now don't be weepin' for this pretty bit of clay,
there where the neck is to the shoulders joined.
Tonight we pray for water.... cool, clear water
such did Antaeus seem to me, who watched
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you.
but what is that to me whose limbs are bound?
No matter how I struggle and strive
the sympathy which thou dost take for fear.
It makes me laugh and it makes me cry
And ever without resting was the dance
We were happy, oh so happy little darlin'
so made the heavens, and so gave guides to them,
Can you face them and say
then those shalt thou behold who, though in fire,
One you say, and ten I see
held to the left, and I behind him moved.
Jesus died for me long ago
down at his legs; but their decurion then
At home alone I hang my head in sorrow
"If I believed that my reply were made
I'll be your baby
let those dull people think, who do not see
So heavy is my load
which doubled my first fear. Hence thus I thought:
I know I'd still want you.
But who are ye, adown whose cheeks there drips,
Each vow was a plaything that she threw away.
each on the thorn-tree of its hostile shade."
darlin I could never be ashamed of you.
One is the woman who charged Joseph falsely;
I knew you couldn't win, I told you from the start
in fashion; these he flapped in such a way,
I went and broke my darlin's heart
But let the Evil Claws here stand aside
down behind the trees and the moon is slowly rising
its face; and, taking down his shepherd-staff,
This heart of mine - could never see
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and now to middle-tierce the sun returns."
he was some mothers darlin, he was some mothers son
I was a poet, and of that just man,
When my life here is o'er I'm going home
nothing has ever by thine eyes been seen
You're my gal and I'm your feller dress up in your frock of yeller
that more ferocious in his looks he seems."
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.
and ten great trenches subdivide its bed.
But then you changed dear, you found someone new
shall come, and bring her to a painful death.
And when I find me that river, Lord I'm gonna pay the price, oh Lord
because of which their joints so strongly twitched,
I'll have a new home of glory eternal
thy keenest vision o'er that ancient scum,
I've just told Mama goodbye
who nearer than the rest are at his side;
Our story's so old again has been told
over a bubbling stream, that poureth down
I told my heart I didn't love you
A shade then at the tomb's uncovered mouth
NO NOT NOW, (no not now), NO NOT NOW, (no not now),
he then began to say, "thou, too, Cagnazzo;
A jug of wine to numb my mind
who in the seeming heifer was conceived;
Now, You're Gonna Change or I'm a-gonna leave.
of the other pole, and our pole so low down,
As they rippled soft and low
for see, thou now art neither two nor one."
Why should I pay, tell me why should I cry
entangled, when the mast breaks; even so,
No matter how I struggle and strive
and all the rest that sea bathes round about.
And now I know I was mistaken
Of Cadmus, and of Arethusa, too,
Life sometimes can be so cruel that a heart will pray for death
an augur was, when Greece lacked males so much,
"Out in this cold wide world all alone
and with that little company, by whom
Take these chains from my heart and set me free
Thus shallower and shallower became
You don't want real love
among the rocks and boulders of the crag,
Lord I wish I had never been born
It pains me still but to remember them.
And drive your buggy back to town
From him we had departed now, when two
To Canaan's land I'm on my way
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The soles of all were, both of them, on fire;
I know you're gonna love me after all
of this first lay, which treats of those submerged.
You are on my lonely mind
seemed to be made of glass and not of water.
in a long, long while
And he replied to me: "Thy prayer deserves
As I stood by her bedside, those last few moments
Brigata and Uguccione innocent,
I can't buy no beer.
turn wholly into ashes as he fell;
Run along run along don't you pester me further
The Prince of modern Pharisees, who then
If you make your baby mad and she says goodbye
Ser Branca d' Oria is, and many years
If you can't treat me right then get out of my life
I had his hair wrapped round my hand already,
And ever since she let me down
are in a place, to speak of which is hard,
Oh, heaven only knows how much I miss you
the Harpies, feeding then upon its leaves,
They strengthened their own selfish pride
that with thine eyes thou quite attain the face
But some glad day I'm going home
both old and recent, by the flames burnt in!
Keep a-movin' Dan. Don't you listen to him Dan.
if I deserved of you, when still alive,
You are on my lonely mind.
"Look at that great man there, who, as he comes,
You wanted me to see you change your name
Ah, Pisa, foul reproach of those that dwell
I'll never get out of this world alive
"˜Father, much less shall we be pained, if us
Now, brother that's my headache, don't you worry 'bout me.
all living things on earth; and I alone
Now I lay awake, dear, with tears in my eyes
and wished to ask thee: "˜Who is in the flame
But now you are gone it's over I know
do freely for thee what thy words request,
A haul right off and count with me
their feet are clawed, and feathered their great bellies;
Thiinking of you
Before him there are always many standing;
He held and caressed it, and gazed up above
then said: "Wrongly did he report the thing,
Rose a sad, old colored preacher from his little wooden desk
within the court of Heaven, and my words, too,
But now I know your heart is shackled to a memory
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should give the Novarese a victory,
All I do is sit and sigh, oh Lord
but moved to anger seemed the one who spoke.
The groom's Just Waitin' for the June bride
Then, through an opening in the rock he issued,
Before you ask for more.
"O lofty Virtue," I began, "that leadst me
At first when I heard of some people who claim
were foreordained unto the holy place,
That time has turned the tide
none e'er returned alive from this abyss,
Then the Parson came over and took his hand
for flames were spread about within the tombs,
That never should have been said
both of the world, and of the vice and worth
I kept my vows you left me all alone
awake against his will, as each oft plied
I left her alone without saying goodbye
and each is swathed by that wherewith he burns."
I remember how my Savior died
Such is the privilege of this Ptolomí¨a,
Then will you be ready to go home
her Polydorus lying on the beach,
Well I'm standin' on a corner - With a bucket in my hand
some lying are; and some are standing up,
When i cross them smokey mountains. i'll be countin' every mile,
those townsmen who rebuilt her afterward
But nobody's lonesome for me.
In each mouth, as a heckle would have done,
Up there no tears will blind my eyes
as would a flame made weary by the wind;
In old Alabam'
we came upon a still more cruel pack;
and I'm so doggone blue
for Guglielmo Borsierí«, who but newly
And that moonlit pass BY the Alamo
who both himself and what he owned destroyed.
And with the dawn I'll wake and yawn
changed from the Arno to the Bacchiglií²ní«,
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart?
with native and with foreign things; but never
For a life of sin I have paid the cost
whereat its trunk cried out: "Why dost thou rend me?"
In this world of sorrow, I've seen trouble and woe
although this trench goes round eleven miles,
What makes you treat me like a piece of clay
since in ill-doing thou excell'st thy seed?
Take this message to my mother
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The other, who behind me treads the sand,
He always wore his Sunday feathers and held a tomahawk
bring us and our requests into contempt,
Now my heart is broke it's sad and it's sore
and least so those that under torment lay,
THEN IT'S USELESS TO YOU, IF YOU'VE STRAYED FROM THE FOLD,
Coarse hail, and snow, and dirty-colored water
Can you smile and say
But when in the sweet world thou art again,
Our love was in flower as summer grew on
set forth thereat, and came unto the place,
AN KICKS HIS HEELS UP TO THE SKY
and seems in body still alive above.
I remember how my Savior died
that what was fear is turned into desire.
Just remember there's a man to blame and that man might be your son
somewhat disturbed by anger in his looks;
No use to sit at home and fine
For such defects, and for no other guilt,
Praise the Lord I saw the light.
one on his head, the other on his soles;
"Oh! who was that brave girl so sweet?"
and who, when times arrive that make him lose,
And every night I'll pray dear that
for rudeness shown to him was courtesy.
Then all God's faithful children will raise up from the dead
of misery; and this thy Leader knows.
So scratch it on over (move it on over)
related, and heard mentioned, with regard.
And then I jumped in the river, but the doggone river was dry
and wit, deprived the Colchians of their ram.
Won't you come over in mine
according to what poets hold for truth,
When God dips His love in my heart
for which thou didst not fear to seize by fraud,
The mean old freight train blues.
if news of thee thou 'dst have me bear above,
And my tears they fell like rain.
"O my dear Leader, who hast made me safe
When God dips His love in my heart
with cenchri, phí reae and í mphisbaenae,
But she just wouldn't stay
"see how thou enter, and in whom thou put
I can see your mansion on the hill
of each were ready to exchange their matter.
I've just told Mama goodbye
to shake a tower with so much violence,
His frail body trembled, he spoke soft and low
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in soul he bathes already in Cocytus,
And now the bitter teardrops start
on this side of the angel-trumpet's sound.
Ev'rybody's lonesome for somebody else
is leaned to warm, and spotted o'er with scabs
Then you'll be judged; by the deeds you have done
Then, after this, my Leader said to me:
I was there with my Saviour free from grief and strife
the other, Pholus, who so wrathful was.
I got the honky tonk blues,
with which thine Ethics treats extensively
We're getting closer to the grave each day
Thereafter to the left he turned his feet;
Packin' and unpackin' your junk
from tuft to tuft he afterward descended
In this world of grief and sorrow
while from his own the wretch had two thrust forth.
Well I left my home down on the rural route
When from me I had wholly loosened it,
A love-light beams across the foam
wherein the boiled were crying out aloud.
Sweep it on over (move it on over)
whene'er they reach the two points of the ring,
So that you and I could live
Pistoia first despoils herself of Neri;
You are on my lonely mind.
and as we followed up the lonely path
She told me on Sunday she was checkin' me out
Then of a sudden standing up, he cried:
Today his mother shares a new love
the glowing summit of the lofty tower,
jesus, he died on calvarys tree
and when their faces had been raised toward me,
He can eat an apple pie and never even bat an eye
nay, on arriving I sat down at once.
Mercy abundantly waits
We now had climbed the next tomb-spanning bridge,
When God comes and gathers his jewels
the gateway of the creed believed by thee;
You're not made out of candy
ought one to close his lips as best he can,
You'll sometimes think of me
but I was yonder, where assent was given
You give away your kisses
we found the next one far more large and fierce.
Deep in my heart, there's a burnin'
so from the band where Dido is they issued,
But she don't care about me
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is Nimrod, to whose evil thought is due
In the mountains far away
down to the plain, the rock is shattered so,
Beneath the stars all alone
she wandered long about the world. Up there
You're not buyin'
till we had reached the first place on the crag,
You just keep naggin', all the day long
seemed weary to me; then methought I saw
But I found I couldn't hide
They kept blaspheming God, and their own parents,
Just get your self a ticket on that Pan American Queen
like the dull, buzzing sound which bee-hives make;
When the evenin' sun is sinking
the dispositions three which Heaven rejects,
You'll see many loved ones standin' in the crowd
and, dreaming, wishes that he dreamt, and thus,
And when you're in that juryroom just remember there and then
and I, who longed to look about and see
Oh Lord, please stop that terrible train
As frogs before the hostile water-snake
That you're ready to meet
nay, more, I 'd have thee certainly believe
You'll remember darling what I told you
even so at times, his suffering to relieve,
From out of the sky, He's coming to meet me
of poor Sabellus' and Nassidius' fate,
And you will hear Him if you'll just pray
"O Malebranche," from our bridge he cried,
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
which fell into the following round, was heard
Darling, someday when your memories wander
to have the people pass across the bridge,
You leave me here, to pay and pay
"Step forward, Alichino, and Calcabrina,"
I'm the same old trouble that you've always been through
their flanks torn open by sharp-pointed fangs.
'Cause My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
and whether he have wronged me thou shalt know.
Out there in that lonesome graveyard
is leaned to warm, and spotted o'er with scabs
Well, if you mind your business, then you won't be mindin' mine.
When in the youthful season of the year
No one will ever know how much I'm pineing
My thoughts, by reason of the present brawl,
Just a spark of the love that used to be
which speaks of them in thy live world above,
I'll always be the same old pal,
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leaning, just as a pan against a pan
About my daddy
And as in ditches at the water's edge
To count like Caesar when Caesar's dead
of compensation, may refresh thy fame
Today as she walked arm in arm
of that wild beast with gaily mottled skin,
To travel a land of hunger and pain
of Trent, which sidewise smote the í€dige,
Until the last one had returned she'd always keep a light
"Since he is still, lose not thy chance; but speak,
Baby, we're really in love.
shall Jason be, of whom in Maccabees
Lord I love to hear her when she calls me sweet da-a-addy
"If you desire" thereat began again
for the little boy who lived there has done gone and run away.
I had his hair wrapped round my hand already,
He walked every step up Calvary's ragged way
when I shall whistle, as our wont it is,
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
for when we had attained the ruined bridge,
I often sit and wonder
he seized again the wretched skull with teeth,
HOW CAN YOU REFUSE JESUS NOW.
his breast, he said: "See now how I am cloven!
and these silver tears you're shedding now, is just interest on the loan.
There people were with slow and serious eyes,
When you're wearing striped britches,
Vengeance Divine is hammering on them there."
If you're not saved; you'll be lost in the night
and hear what through eternity resounds."
As they go strollin' by
"Had he before been able to believe,
Well, you're just in time to turn around
so pleasing outwardly was its complexion;
When you and your baby have a fallin' out
Paris and Tristan see;" and then he showed me,
Where the white roses turn to red."
I cannot well say how I entered it,
Can you smile and say
all forms of cowardice must here be dead.
Her eyes reflect the nightlife her cheeks they're red with paint
"A different course from this must thou pursue,"
My Son Calls Another Man Daddy
begin to break upon mine ears; I now
And then go home and pull my hair
"˜I 'm not the one, I 'm not the one thou thinkest!'"
I got them gone but not forgotten blues
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because I lent to his unfinished phrase
Mother is gone, to her home
like one whom inward anger overcomes.
'Cause My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
Not yet had Nessus reached the other side,
Preacher Just Waitin' for the groom
Oh, how I long for some one to arrive!"
Where in dreams I live with a memory
Now canst thou, son, behold the short-lived cheat
For time has proven I was wrong
and such that it embraces all the plain,
I promise you baby that I'll be good
was quiet and erect, and now away from us
I can't escape from you.
on either hand unto the point opposed,
Then's when you'll wish; you had Jesus nigh
when, after laying hold on me, he said:
Now Jonah got along in the belly of the whale,
all chosen iron is he down from there,
and it matters not what we go through
even as my Leader had commanded me,
AN STICK YA FINGER IN YOUR EYE
had to its very bottom been revealed.
Be prepared to go, there's one thing I know
down to the plain, the rock is shattered so,
Hang the scenes that're painted from life
and hears the crashing of the beasts and boughs.
The kisses we steal we know are not real
I gathered up the scattered twigs and leaves,
Beneath the stars all alone
I saw, so frozen in a single hole,
A sweatin' and swearin'
Cassius the other is, who so big-limbed
Sometimes it's har-rd but you gotta understand
Ah, how they caused them to lift them up their heels,
My shirts they came up wrinkled,
perchance withdraws thee from my memory so,
I could tell my heart I'm glad we parted
and eager are to pass across the stream,
When she passes that Nashville tower you can hear that whistle whine
as the disciple him who teaches; hence,
Those wedding bell will never ring for me
but inasmuch as, if I hear the truth,
Then no one will ever know the truth but me
shall not be lighted fifty times again,
Never was much fun to me
Cain's ice awaiteth him who quenched our life."
He smiled as we parted, cause he didn't know
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our Lord demanded of Saint Peter first,
Well when I woke up this mornin',
will drive the other out with much offence.
When my life here is o'er I'm going home
who Thebes besieged; he held, and seems to hold
In this wicked world of sin
and said: "Here under cover must thou dance,
Everybody says you let me down
But he, who succoured me at other times
So pack it on over (move it on over)
the first, who had thereto been most opposed.
SO SELFISH ARE WE, FOR SILVER AND GOLD,
so that the rain seems not to ripen him?"
To supply our every need
Ali in tears moves on ahead of me,
There lies a story on a rose.
when I shall whistle, as our wont it is,
Deep within my heart lies a melody
Ah, how disdainful did he seem to me!
ALL I DO IS SET AND CRY,
but I beheld him with his legs held up.
If it be across the deep blue sea
Ahithophel by Absalom and David,
If the judge says pay her forty dollars a week
called out to us thereat: "O souls, so cruel,
And be on his way
and drowned in sacks near La Cattí²lica,
My neighbor then smiled and I thought:
He rules as emperor everywhere, and there
I've just told Mama goodbye
who near our bank was standing, and transfixed him
Then I recall how my Jesus died
"whate'er thou be, or shade, or very man!"
I'm going away where, life is eternal
But tell him who thou wast, that he, by way
But now I know I was mistaken
even such was the descent of that ravine;
Ever since the day you set me free
began again: "Why dost thou break me off?
I'M TIRED OF WAITIN', HONEY DO YOU LOVE ME, HUH.
if lashed and beaten by opposing winds.
You'll meet her up there in heaven so fair
Before me there was naught created, save
The well's gone dry and I have to tote the water
is first received, it transfixed one of them,
Super-duper (Rootie Tootie)
"for I 'm not far from quarrelling with thee."
But honey among tigers you'd be queen
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it came, livid and black as peppercorn.
The way I do
and Rachel, too, for whom he did so much,
Sometimes it's har-rd but you gotta understand
nay, more, I 'd have thee certainly believe
All my heart has lost a feeling
whose faces thou hast not perceived as yet,
when slowly through the window came a plaintive funeral hymn
wheels and descends, but I perceive it not,
And then maybe these tears
looks out, and, seeing all the country white,
I know that I would never be this blue
they struck against each other; then, right there
It wasn't in you to play square.
Tuscans or Lombards, I will have some come.
In this world I'm left to wander
on this side of the angel-trumpet's sound.
When tears come down
before my age had rounded out its noon.
You're just in time to change your tune
and then remember who those are above,
Gathered 'round him all his buddies
whither souls go to wash themselves, when once
"Out in this cold wide world all alone
was he, for whom, Gavillí«, thou dost weep.
I've fetched your saddle home.
Then, after this, my Leader said to me:
And his eyes they brightly sparkle at the pretty things he view
Thereat my Teacher over his right cheek
But they left him to die like a tramp on the street.
and, in their looks, of great authority;
Yet there's consolation in my heart
Thereat my Leader turned and said: "Now wait;
I covered the crushed, broken body and said:
"I 'll tell thee very briefly," he replied.
But it's sure better than no house at all
nothing at all did I discern therein.
They won't leave you alone till they've got your last dollar
to one of them my Leader then began,
Things have changed, you'd rather fight than eat
to look at me, than at the other foul ones?"
cause I'm crying for you dear
Cocytus was completely frozen up.
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
which with its spoil of rings made such high heaps,
Then you have a big policeman drag me back home
through a disloyal tyrant's treachery.
I'm leaving now
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an agí¨d man, all white with ancient hair,
We'll show the folks a brand new dance that never has been done
and more, whom love had from our life cut off.
Oh Lord, please stop that terrible train
before the water's noise was so near by,
I know nothing but sorrow
a noise like nothing other than a wind,
But I'm satisfied with you.
assist him so that I may be consoled.
Both footsore and weary I rested awhile
thou say'st the other of this rain is made."
No-bod-o-dy lonesome for me.
for in my mind is fixed, and stirs e'en now
You can find it in the temple
Then Calcabrina, angered by the flout,
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
turning, meanwhile, his teeth against himself.
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
he asked me for advice, but I kept still,
Came in last night about a half past ten
he gathers in his grapes, or ploughs his field;
I'm sittin' here waitin' for you right now
that it would yield a path for one above;
But I'd be just as blue
all living things on earth; and I alone
But tell her I'll be waiting for her
came down from Fií¨solí«, and which e'en now
But now I'll tell you about one all the southern folks have seen
and landed on the bank its head and chest;
Why sometimes when we'd stay away till one or two or three
After her father had from life departed,
So kiss her every mornin' and love her every night
Thereafter I beheld a thousand faces
I feel so sorry for you Hank,
He of the dropsy: "Here thou sayest true,
'cause I'm cryin' for you, dear
how I can Palestrina overthrow.
Wait for the light to shine wait for the light to shine
both of the world, and of the vice and worth
Teardrops fell the night you said
so that the tail may do no injury."
SO SELFISH ARE WE, FOR SILVER AND GOLD,
as that which I beheld in two death-pale
A picture from the past came slowly stealing
which, when collected, perforate that cave.
Wait for the light to shine wait for the light to shine
who used to call shades back into their bodies.
The groom's Just Waitin' for the June bride
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those fiends, though, who were sheltered by the bridge,
I've got a blue love in my heart.
it stretched it upward all along his back.
While she's circlin' through the canyons, can't you see that mountain stream
had been deceived by Pinamonte's guile.
Then I began to wonder, if I had made a blunder,
The other two looked on, and each exclaimed:
I'm sorry for - your victim now
"Before thou enter any further, know
For you are the one I want, my darlin', can't you see
and outrage next, the Lady beautiful?"
So this world would not be lost
and end be linked by an attentive mind.
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.
his memory; hence his shade is furious here.
I'm on my way to that fair land
Because I severed those who thus were joined,
You said you could live without loving
and moved the latter, stretched out like an eel,
I've had it proven to me,
had given thee comfort in thy work. But that
And that's the only thing that counts
"what in my verses only he has seen,
But we got married on the Tennessee Border.
while yet, as now it is, the wind is hushed.
I'll even make believe I never loved you
they are of every other destiny.
One time too many I'd rubbed him wrong and he evened up the score
and render all their channels cool and fresh,
Cause I know you're living in sorrow
Lucí¬a, hostile to all cruelty,
You started rollin' down that lost highway
But tell him who thou wast, that he, by way
This old log train
"Thy trouble, Ciacco," I replied to him,
No matter how I struggle and strive
Then, having talked among themselves awhile,
I'll never get out of this world alive
they used it once, which still is lockless found.
Mississippi, she's Louisina Bound, of the trains in the southland
which, 'gainst me coming, pushed me, step by step,
My world is honest and true
they struck against each other; then, right there
Once dear I thought
and is no less than half a mile across.
Said the little paper boy, there on the street
this deep abyss and those that people it.
Can't you hear the Blessed Saviour Callin' You?
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once tookst a thousand lions as thy prey,
But nobody's lonesome for me
which breaks against the one it runs to meet,
These words he said with tears in his eyes
And I to him: "Even though I come, I stay not;
Now that's what happens when you get too big for your britches
this led mine eyes, as counter to its path
I gave up my friends, I left my home
their sin, repented of, has been removed."
She leaves the city of the angels headin' for ole Santa Fe
where toils the Carrarese who dwells below,
Broken song, empty words I know
Ne'er with more colors in its woof and warp
If the judge says pay her forty dollars a week
the spirit of the wrathful Florentine
Six more miles, long and sad,
Round me he looked, as if he wished to see
Where happiness is free
that I on two occasions scattered them."
I've just told Mama goodbye
I then replied to him, "you had not yet
There's be no pain or sorrow, no tears will e'er be shed
can not be made, because the sixth arch yonder
And to those who weep death comes cheap these men with broken hearts
making such havoc of him, that therefor
Just a little old shanty by a railroad track,
beneath which each of them was changing face.
But honey among tigers you'd be queen
dost thou not succour him who loved thee so,
That's what's the matter with me
He therefore took me up with both his arms,
I made a mistake, dear, by tellin' you lies
when people in the great round trench I saw
YOU FAN THE AIR AS HE GOES BY
to where the melancholy people sat.
I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You.
had felt the love, whereby, as some believe,
Won't you sometimes think of me
Goodness Divine, and loose the tangled knot."
Then suddenly I got that old time feeling
out to their feeding drives his tender sheep.
If just a few parted parents
I still give praise and render thanks to God.
Faded love and winter roses yearning hearts that used to be
there the Palladium's penalty is paid."
Wondering what I could do
so doing I beheld the Minotaur;
I thought I was right but I must of been wrong
Canto CCLIII
one may employ against a man who trusts him,
The seeds of distrust, it will sow
that one is high, and low the following one;
That old log train
There is a place down there, as far removed
The words were Mother is gone.
'Neath Julius was I born, though somewhat late,
I wouldn't let my dear saviour in
I bit in anguish both my hands. And they,
For the while my love is sleeping
so gently, locking and unlocking it,
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain.
it stretched it upward all along his back.
He told ev'rybody how mean that I was
What is it, then? Why, why dost thou hold back?
Could hear little Sue say
and work her arts, she settled with her slaves,
As He hung there all alone
all living things on earth; and I alone
That waits beside the track
of this first lay, which treats of those submerged.
I WENT TO THE RIVER, BUT THE WATER'S TOO COLD,
O woeful me! O how I shook with fear,
Soon I'll cross that dark river
Not otherwise do cooks have scullions plunge
And even on the morning she became another's bride
each soul will find again its dismal tomb,
If you only loved me half as much as I love you
and wherefore doth our sin torment us so?
That last long day she said goodbye
One reached Capocchio, and so thrust his tusks
I promise you baby that I'll be good
"So may thy spirit lead thy members long,"
And he drowses dead mother's ring from his finger
as if attacked by fever or by sleep.
With your dying breath
wander so far from that which is its wont,
Cry, oh, lord.
what he began to say by what came after,
I is one and X is ten
Then, toward my Teacher having turned his face,
Weary blues from waitin'
and hear what through eternity resounds."
There was a note upon my door,
gushed upward though the lids; whereat the cold,
And the joy within me made my glad heart weep
inside the entrance he examines sins,
To walk through that front door
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The Teacher thus; and I: "Find thou therefor
Darlin I could never be ashamed of you
kept swelling up, and settling back compressed.
On this road of sin are you sorrow bound
the thighs and legs, the belly and the chest
His blood washed all my sins away
They pricked him then with o'er a hundred prongs,
I've got the freight train blues, lordy, lordy, lordy,
are in a place, to speak of which is hard,
Hows about keepin' steady company?
They struck each other, not with hands alone,
All your dreams of heaven will come true on that day
ears issued on his undeveloped cheeks;
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart?
will drive the other out with much offence.
The snow falls 'round my window
wholly bewildered by the great distress
Where the soul of man never dies
Even thus my Teacher filled me with dismay,
Now if you go out and start a playing around
and limed the bank on every side. I saw
She just couldn't stand my disgrace
how many tender thoughts and what desire
A long time ago
which breaks against the one it runs to meet,
My gal is the village bell
and make his will and give it legal form."
So blue the nights, so blue the days
with bows and arrows they had chosen first.
Got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes,
My kindly Teacher then began to say:
I'll never get out of this world alive
Their hands were bound behind their back with snakes,
I kept my vows you left me all alone
that, after it, I hardly could have checked them.
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
bathes me even now with sweat.
Than change you for somebody new.
to others is, for that is known to none.
And turn in fire alarms
whene'er they reach the two points of the ring,
Will you please make up your mind what you want me to do
Therein, as far as one could judge by list'ning,
And we'll go Honky Tonkin', Honky Tonkin'
than he will planted stay with ruddy soles;
Cause I love to rock, yeah rock
our eyes intent on those that swallow mud;
Said the little paper boy, there on the street
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The one who stood, drew his in toward his temples;
Jesus died for me long ago
Tisí¬phoní«'s between." Thereat he ceased.
That you're ready to meet
he looks behind, and backward goes his way.
Came in last night about a half past ten
Israel, with both his father and his sons,
Be prepared to go, there's one thing I know
though not that any be reclothed therewith;
But today I'm saying my first prayer
not heeding in himself his lofty office
HE CRIED THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND,
for I in frays like this have been before."
And my way is clear and bright
da Siena had me burned;" one then replied,
I run around in circles
Why is it that ye kick against the Will,
And he said, "Now don't be weepin' for this pretty bit of clay,
had to its very bottom been revealed.
If you do her wrong she'll leave this tonw
that I on two occasions scattered them."
There he was lying but he felt no pain
whose faces thou hast not perceived as yet,
Why Don't You Love Me like you used to do.
with eyes askance, and uttered not a word;
And then I took her in my arms,
and Niccolí², who was the first to find
Then there'll be no teardrops tonight.
for after him shall come from westward lands
What a happy feelin' to know He'll always care
with all its host of burdened citizens."
If it was rainin' gold I wouldn't stand a chance
toward me, that well my face may answer thee;
NOW THE TOUGHEST HIDE GROWS ON A MULE
Pistoia, ah, Pistoia, why not will
There's no room in my life for a sigh
held out their heads, and even all their chest;
I give my all and sit and yearn
that to the ends of earth their fame was noised.
So don't take off your hat and coat
the human species, and the place, and time,
What can I do - you win again.
by reason of a vague sound issuing thence.
THERE'S A STORY OLD, THAT HAS OFTEN BEEN TOLD,
Ere now have I seen cavalry break camp,
Long about Monday she was nowhere about
which in me overcame all consciousness;
Should you go first and I remain for battles to be fought
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my heart forebode, thou grievest not already;
The house it leaks - it needs a new top
from human minds in that first world of ours,
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
Ah, how ferocious in his looks he was,
No-bod-o-dy lonesome for me.
nothing has ever by thine eyes been seen
Turn the pages of your Bible, in St. Matthew you will see,
The Teacher thus; then he in haste stretched out
(But) each time my dear it was worse than before
untilled and naked of inhabitants.
I've waited all through the years love
is like, thou ’lt see; hence here it is not told.
Yes, his burdens are greater than mine.
of those tormented spirits of old times,
The first three months, was all OK,
to trample on the soil, because the flames,
On the past let's close the door
who on the highroads waged so great a war.
If you do her wrong she'll leave this tonw
By palsy some, perhaps, may thus have been
THERE'S A STORY OLD, THAT HAS OFTEN BEEN TOLD,
But when in the sweet world thou art again,
You wouldn't worry me half as much as you do
and make a hedge across the Arno’s mouth,
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.
then we with full assurance toward the town,
When the ev'nin' train goes by
a little closer to my Leader drew.
Just how many homes are broken tonight
from ’neath the little bridge those devils issued,
I think I'd quit my doggish ways if you'd take me for your groom
who in the seeming heifer was conceived;
And I'd bow my head and cry again
If thou art slow now, Reader, to believe
That their gold and silver will melt away
When over him my Teacher stopped, he said:
She's got that kind of lovin'
the artful game of magical deceits.
Mindin' other people's business seems to be high-toned
that I through him may issue from a doubt;
Her smile was like an angel fair
awake against his will, as each oft plied
Before it is too late
he of the swollen paunch, “and bitter be
Six more miles and leave my darlin',
one of thy troop, at whose side we may be,
I wish that I was with my darling
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I then began, through wishing to be sure
She's on her way to doom
nor do I think there ever was one such.
I'll meet my loved ones all once again
But tell me: at the time of tender sighs,
I knew the way
It grows into a sapling and wild tree;
But today you're all alone and broken hearted
“Who has forbidden me the homes of pain?
I had lot's of luck but it's all been bad
ere Chiarentana feel the summer heat;
You're just in time to be too late
among the wretched mutilated shades?
You leave me here, to pay and pay
“Speak thou, for this one an Italian is.
And everlasting joys I'll reap
he had to show assurance in his face.
The cow's gone dry - and them hens won't lay
because they ’ve gone with us in our direction.
So don't take off your hat and coat
are evermore before me, nor in vain;
haul up on a crack up on a wheelbarrow blackstone
who see not only what is done by others,
To anyone who's fool enough to fall ...
God hates it most; therefore the fraudulent
Well Lord I thought I would cry
which with his eye my Teacher follows thus.
Once dear I thought
related, and heard mentioned, with regard.
And the dark shadows creep
‘Him of Duera’ thou canst say, ‘I saw
Since the day that we met you've been nothin' but trouble
thus is it yonder willed, where there is power
He's repeating these words he was told.
and I, who longed to look about and see
If the judge says pay her forty dollars a week
becoming, even as speech was, where we spoke.
I'm Free At Last from love and all its' worries
these wrought their spells with herbs and images.
Of stitches taken all a - round.
provides itself a witness in their midst.
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain.
unless too great resemblance play me false,
Won't it be so sweet, to rest at Jesus' feet
from which the Roman’s noble seed went forth;
But darlin' I'll forget you, your memory will die
immediately stood up, and said to me:
Each vow was a plaything that she threw away.
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toward me, that well my face may answer thee;
And you got no place to go
While I on seeing him was all intent,
Violets Just Waitin' for dew
sees all its stripped off clothing on the ground;
That we shared together in the used to be
each will take on again its flesh and shape,
Move over old dog cause a new dog's moving in
scatter in all directions through the water,
'Cause My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
off easy, and even in other offices
One-sy, two-sy, zig-sy and
as would a flame made weary by the wind;
In my dreams you still belong to me
I only wish that this be clear to you,
A House Without Love is not a home.
nothing at all did I discern therein.
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.
and, giving heed, hear what is now proclaimed.
We live in two different worlds, dear
great kings, who here shall be like pigs in mire,
And there on the the tomb, these words I read
since in ill-doing thou excell’st thy seed?
All because I loved no one but you.
And I, whose head was girt about with horror,
And my hair turns whiter than snow
turned his head round to where his legs had been,
'Cause I ain't got nothin' but time
And I to him: “Point out and show to me,
It seemed to us that mama heard the turnin' of the key
and crouches now, and now is on her feet.
AN YA SWAT AT IT AS IT WIZZES BY
the dust, assembling of its own accord,
You no longer care for me but when you're happy with another
With six eyes he was weeping, and his tears
Darling, I could never be ashamed of you
if news of thee thou ’dst have me bear above,
So gentlemen do you think it's right to condemn her now
thou ’lt see him wholly from his girdle up.
'Neath a cold gray tomb of stone
and, of our persons rid, as fast as flies
Well she didn't forward no address,
From these two things, if thou recall to mind
Last night I dreamed of heaven and it filled my heart with joy
to trample on the soil, because the flames,
Now we'll forever be apart
fly to the other bank; on both sides then
If you missed me half as much as I miss you
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Both old and slow were I and my companions,
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain.
which without wrath we cannot enter now.
I saw the light I saw the light
so from the broken twig together issued
Oh! Lord I see his burdens are greater than mine.
I ’ll speak of what I else discovered there.
Poor ol' KAW-LIGA, he don't know what he missed
So likewise, as great sages have declared,
Like a flop-eared mule that ain't got no sense
more quickly than thine inward I receive.
The mem'ry of your helping hand will buoy me on with hope
that I knew how to raise me in the air;
Now gentlemen that's my story my testimony stands
“If they were driven out, I answered him,
Where the soul........never dies
The sinner then, who understood, feigned not,
They pierced his side and then his feet
was put to death, there is no need to say;
Each year on Mother's day
your art is grandchild, as it were, to God.
You tell him lies he don't belie-ieve
down to the opening of the lowest well,
I've got to get rollin'
when, after laying hold on me, he said:
Each vow was a plaything that she threw away.
“I beg you to with all my power; said I,
The Lord didn't give you that baby, by no hundred thousand miles,
“And death I thereto added, “to thy tribe!
When I got a woman - in the boss man's yard.
and is by nature so malign and guilty,
will leave my eyes.
How justly, too, thy virtue makes awards!
And now I'm So Tired Of It All.
he took the place the guilty soul had lost.
Honky tonk blues,
I, trusting him, was seized, and afterward
I'm not gonna worry wrinkles in my brow
there lies a lake which is Benàco called.
All your dreams of heaven will come true on that day
and then fell down, stretched out in front of him.
The way I do
or that no hair remain upon thee here!
Hey, sweet baby - don't you think maybe
“If satisfying others other times
I've lost my heart it seems
While one was saying this, the other spirit
When I pass by all the people say
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and those that with such keen tongues meet each other,
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
The heavy dropsy which unmates the limbs
for the little boy who lived there has done gone and run away.
which goes bewailing its eternal loss.
AND WAIT AROUND FOR HIM TO LIGHT
And my wise Teacher thereupon made signs
Please heed His call and in sin don't fall
The one who stood, drew his in toward his temples;
Just like the blind
but what brings thee into such pungent sauces?
And then you left me 'lone and blue
when exiled, he removed all doubt in Caesar,
If you make your baby mad and she says goodbye
some one whom we may know by deed or name,
He never stopped prayin' for me
bring us and our requests into contempt,
If I ever lose her I'll lay me down and die
this man upon his back, for he is not
And don't mind if I start to weep
stoop, then, nor twist thy muzzle. He can still
to water... cool, clear water.
the Centaur said, “I wish thee to believe
And drive your buggy back to town
that one is high, and low the following one;
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you.
to Messer Guido and Angiolello, too,
If you love me half as much as I love you
And even as cranes move on and sing their lays,
Before it steals their fate
will make an answer to thee as to this.
And as the crowd came passin' by
“so burdens me that it invites my tears;
I heard that lonesome whistle blow
I, trusting him, was seized, and afterward
We'll meet in heaven some glad day. ...
held to the left, and I behind him moved.
And this is what I heard my neighbor say:
is Nimrod, to whose evil thought is due
Tho' the years pass on in sorrow
I cried: “O toil-worn souls, come speak with us,
Just listen to the whistle, it'll thrill you one and all,
that it would be too much, wert thou alive?
You thought she'd care for you and so you acted smart
Into the wood it falls, nor is a place
You are on my lonely mind.
as thou hast said, to land upon the shore?
Up there I know, there'll be no pain
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withdraw thee from those fellows that are dead.
Darling that you went away
nor by Arachnne were such webs designed.
Cry, oh, lord.
Speaking of other things my Comedy
Jesus is calling, calling night and day
My thoughts, by reason of the present brawl,
Still live in my heart all alone
whether some other one were with me there;
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.
replied to him: “Tricky indeed am I,
And my way is clear and bright
that I through him may issue from a doubt;
Raised his head, we heard him say.
when lo, a mountain loomed before us, dim
To live forever more, just o'er on heaven's shore
further than its own sin allotted it.
Please tell me darlin' why can't you be true
Iàcopo Rusticucci was; and surely
There he was lying but he felt no pain
expelled them; nor doth nether Hell receive them,
You're drifting to far from the shore
there was no lamentation, saving sighs
Ain't had no lovin' like a huggin' and a kissin'
those frightful Giants, whom, when from the sky
You got me chasin' Rabbits, walkin' on my hands
Here Ciriatto, from whose mouth protruded,
Oh the day we met, I went astray
“through Antenora, smiting cheeks so roughly,
When leaves begin to die?
upon his level there; but held my head
Oh, heaven only knows how much I miss you
and then, the grafter having disappeared,
Why don't you mind your own business
into the second, which surrounds less space,
Jesus is calling, calling night and day
so faithful was I to my glorious charge,
You got me chasin' Rabbits, walkin' on my hands
I heard a horn give forth so loud a sound,
A haul right off and count with me
and ten great trenches subdivide its bed.
And that's all she wrote, Dear John,
“and who at times dost pincers make of them,
When the ev'nin' train goes by
and if thou note thy Physics carefully,
Some joy I will bring
makes beckoning signs to them, collects them all,
The moon just went behind the clouds
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so from the broken twig together issued
Old sad yesterday
people I saw immersed in excrement,
If just a few parted parents
much praise and therefore I accede to it,
Your daddy's mad; He's done got pee-eeved
begins, and all the cruel trenches spans,
(So) never again will I knock on your door
when, after laying hold on me, he said:
I run around in circles
and now that Barbariccia was approaching,
Dear Brother, Mama left us this morning
But that fiend, who was with my Leader talking,
Won't you come back again and break mine
Then to all wisdom’s Sea I turned around,
You'll see many loved ones standin' in the crowd
and hears the crashing of the beasts and boughs.
Mama's lying on her dying bed.
thou ’lt feel a little while from now what Prato,
When I can't get you off of my mind.
“for I ’m not far from quarrelling with thee.
The good Lord only knows what I go through
but I can not suppress it here; hence, Reader,
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“Be not displeased to tell us, an ye may,
Well I left my home down on the rural route
There be thy conversation brief; meanwhile,
But honey among tigers you'd be queen
for where the reasoning faculty is joined
Do you think that it's smart to jump from heart to heart
appears. But night is coming up again,
There's no room in my memory for tears
and that, alas, poor me! would have availed.
I've been a fool about you, for way too long
and which hath more than once increased your pain?
AN YA SWAT AT IT AS IT WIZZES BY
And I, who gazed intently, saw a flag,
She's gone to meet Daddy up there in heaven
‘O Lady of virtue, thou through whom alone
I saw the light I saw the light
before the Trojans’ eyes, the earth was opened!
Just longing to hear from a loved one so dear
But thou, to such sore trouble why return?
I prayed there and God had His way. (For-)
that death so great a number had undone.
That when I get a kiss I think that something's wrong
keep still there, Scarmiglionë! Then to us:
I'll wake up tomorrow, with tears in my eyes
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is pity. Who, then, guiltier is than he
My lips could tell a lie, but my heart would know
and passed across without a single word.
I'm gonna keep drinkin'
and backward through his head withdraws his ears,
Enchantment strange as the blue up above
I leave the gall, and for the sweet fruit go,
I NEED A LITTLE LOVIN', HONEY WON'T YOU HOLD ME TIGHT.
I then saw Virgil marvelling at him,
So this world would not be lost
There is a devil here behind, who thus
Faded love and winter roses yearning hearts that used to be
a group. The wood behind these two was full
On His head the thorns did lay
have through a hundred thousand perils reached
We met in the springtime when blossoms unfold
who whined and groaned, and with their muzzles puffed,
Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
that for her cradles only few were left;
Where they meet you and they greet you,
I, of His mercy, am so made by God,
When the Pale Horse and his rider goes by?
as with a sudden shame he colored up:
Got in trouble had to roam
“Take that, O God, for ’t is to Thee I show them!
Though our paths in life have parted
hence in the second circle make their nest
She may have forsaken some other like me
was where the shades were wholly covered up,
But now she's gone and I'm alone
of wishing to have private talk with them.
On your journey to the grave
was stretched at length the Infamy of Crete,
Mama's day with her children is through.
‘O Lady of virtue, thou through whom alone
On a stone, these words were written
he told me thereupon, “whose name is Crete,
'Cause My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
the coin! said Sinon, “I ’m for one sin here,
Just mind your own business
the bournes had formed for our descent before,
In Life's many battles that you will have to fight
Then he replied: “When going to the fire
You believe that a true love is blind
saw muddy people in that slimy marsh,
FOR ALL OF OUR WRONGS, THEN WE MUST PAY,
displays its theft, though each a sinner hides.
Because it died When we were apart
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against each other’s shoulders, while another
When the Lord made me, He made a Ra-amblin' Man
one, like a bow, bends toward his feet his face.
Now, honey, let's go honky tonkin'
for, though one faultless be, it brings him shame;
Your dad-ad-dy is lon-one-some
who fell down headlong from the walls at Thebes.
With a welcome on the door
dost go by reason of highmindedness,
The Holy One so dear
as likewise he is, who perceives a boar
But your wife has done been in,
which holds it tied, O spirit of confusion,
If you love me half as much as I love you
A little further on the Centaur stopped
I love you so much I want you happy
pray tell us whether Latin any be
BUT YOU HAVE TREATED ME SO BAD,
is that great Chiron who brought up Achilles;
BUT WHEN HIS MUSCLES START TO TWITCH
Within that mountain stands a great Old Man,
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.
of that small bridge I saw him point thee out,
Won't it be so bright and fair
I know not whether I was here too bold,
You holler good and loud put him in the calaboose
he thunders, Jupiter is threatening still.
Wedding bells are ringing in the chapel
and girt with water-snakes of brightest green;
And crave the love
We ’ve reached the place where, as I said to thee,
I've fetched your saddle home.
the shade of him who through his cowardice
KAW-LIGA - A, just stood there and never let it show
“Our path must turn aside a little now,
AS WE JOURNEY ALONG, ON LIFE'S WICKED ROAD,
and tears, which find a barrier in their eyes,
The ceremony was over
When living, I had all that I desired,
My folks think i've gone crazy
that people is in every law of theirs?
That I should be ashamed to take you 'round
on this ring’s edge hath it appeared to us?
That you're ready to meet
twelve hundred, six and sixty years had passed,
there's water... cool, clear water.
had I, without due cause, moved with the rest;
I still recall his words today.
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till over us the ocean’s waves had closed.
She changed the lock on my front door
aggrieves by either violence or fraud.
For His sufferin' on that day
and speak, we will both hear and speak with you,
Towards the center of your heart I'll be bound
But tell me why thou dost not mind descending
And I will never say I blame you
And he replied to me: “Thy prayer deserves
Sinner hear now what I say
I, therefore: “Teacher, say what town is this?
I've had it proven to me,
And he to me: “Unwillingly I tell it;
Last night I dreamed of heaven my eternal home sweet home
without addressing me; he thus has caused me
I knew when I first met you that you'd be my sweetheart
unhelped by Will Divine and favoring fate?
I'll have a new home of glory eternal
who ’ll bring with him the pocket with three beaks!’
When the evenin' sun is sinking
see whether it be fit to bear thy weight.
If you'll follow in His light
thou needst but to disclose to me thy will.
Just a spark of the love that used to be
my mother gave me, my performances
I said I wouldn't tell it to a living soul
and which above is Acquacheta called,
I'm not the kind of guy to let you down
And she who, yonder, with dishevelled locks
'Cause soon his head - like mine will bow
One here swims otherwise than in the Serchio!
And with the dawn I'll wake and yawn
Vengeance Divine is hammering on them there.
I wish I had a nickel, for every tear you shed last night.
my Teacher said; “for one attains not fame,
And you're pillows stained with tears from your blue eyes
What of my course you tell, I write, and keep,
I'm so sick and tired of scheming
And that thou with thee mayst bear news of me,
Wondering what I could do
In his direction then my Sage cried out:
That tomorrow you'll be wed,
the flame departed from us with its grief,
They tell me little darlin',
a little fiery serpent seemed to me,
My woman run away with another man
The trunk: “With sweet words thou dost so entice me,
I'll always keep your picture it means so much to me
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My mind, to vent its feelings of disdain,
You don't wear diamond rings,
the good companion which, beneath the breastplate
But nobody's lonesome for me
and Mantuans with respect to fatherland.
You are on my lonely mind.
said I within myself, “to this strange signal,
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and canst much better judge than I can talk.
Where the redeemed of God shall stand
This one therein a lord and huntsman seemed,
Well, Why Don't You Love Me like you used to do
but Virgil said: “At what art gazing still?
Where the soul of man never dies
three times it made her whirl with all the waters;
Cause I tell you right now the hide's gettin' sca'ce
Tegghiàio Aldobrandi is, whose voice
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.
ought to be met by deeds without a word.
Worm must be waitin' for the early bird
who he was, thou, if Tuscan, now knowst well.
Baby, we're really in love
in that I answered him in this strain only:
When you'll need someone who will care
because of which our conversation ceased,
Baby, I'll be your baby
that these sinned not; and though they merits have,
Then like the blind man that God gave back his sight
When at the bridge’s very foot he was,
Why do we stay together
his wife then with the other drowned herself.
tell her that I've met my saviour
and fell as falls a body that is dead.
And i don't feel too sure
no help; their nails kept scraping down their scabs,
For ev'ry wrong some day you'll pay
What time the hostile Podestà shall come,
The white hat, the high-heeled boots
to nether Hell I came, that other time,
HIT EVERYTHING EXCEPT THAT FLY
when not far off I saw them coming on
Just Window Shoppin'
came down from Fièsolë, and which e’en now
My dream world fell a part.
And then, addressing me, they said: “O Tuscan,
She left the sink a'saggin',
thou eat; thou with this wretched flesh didst clothe us,
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ THAT MULE CAN'T GET NO REST
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I, trusting him, was seized, and afterward
Too many boyfriends and sociable sals may drive your sweetheart away
and from idolaters how differ ye,
If you take time to look
as would be fitting for the dismal hole,
Now baby, just come on and smile
it should not bring amazement to thy face.
But some glad day I'm going home
who, vexed and baffled thus, flies up again.
How she cried when I left her
And my wise Teacher thereupon made signs
All alone I bear the shame
by means of wasps and hornets that were there.
The whole night through
for thy well-doing shall become thy foe;
If you can't treat me right then get out of my life
so close together, that their hair was mixed.
And i know i'll not be lonesome,
“Do honor to the loftiest of poets!
We live in two different worlds, dear
by people hiding there on our account.
If it be across the deep blue sea
to have the people pass across the bridge,
And now I can see the end of my journey
“but what I died for doth not bring me here.
And when that whistle blows, I've gotta go,
so lay that worst of beasts upon the edge
And each precious vow you tried to keep
and by the hair it held the severed head,
Oh heavenly Father, help me understand
while, calling him, his father cried: “Thou hold’st
I'm leaving now
Five times rekindled, and as often quenched,
Last night as I lay dreamin'
and naked, he is forced to be the first
Ole Dan and I, with throats burned dry,
My Leader stopped; and I to him, who still
You'll meet many just like me upon life's busy street
And just such sticky pitch as that which boils
A long time ago
people I saw immersed in excrement,
These words he said with tears in his eyes
some lying are; and some are standing up,
But some glad day I'm going home
Justice infallible, is punishing
My eyes beheld a tragic story
and trembling each of them turned round toward me,
Beneath the cold clay
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together in one ditch; such was it here;
Daniel in the lion's den,
wholly bewildered by the great distress
You got me chasin Rabbits, pickin' out rings and Howlin' At The Moon
of Menalippus out of spite, than this one
If you're grateful for their vict'ries
the way is long and difficult the road,
Move over old dog cause a new dog's moving in
and landed on the bank its head and chest;
AND YA LIGHT OF LOVE IS SHININ' BRIGHT
below, when they were on the ridge above,
Where the soul........never dies.
Ah, how ferocious in his looks he was,
But your wife has done been in,
the peasant, lacking provender, gets up,
Feelin' dandy, doin' swell
scatter in all directions through the water,
Cause her daddy had gone far away,
so fast, as round about the other’s limbs
'Cause I just don't like this way of livin'.
a windmill looks when seen from far away;
And now I got enough and so I'm getting out
both of the world, and of the vice and worth
I love you, so swing wide your gate of love
he threw it down into the greedy throats.
When all dead in Christ shall rise
where thou wast questioned of the truth at Troy.
That they called Chapman Town
by vapor from below, which, sticking there,
I'll pretend I'm free from sorrow
He fell on this side out of Heaven; whereat,
Just as long as she's with me
But that fiend, who was with my Leader talking,
You couldn't forgive me, so you went away
We thus passed through with slowly moving steps
To take it the rest of my life.
To the request, however, which thou makest
She said, "son, please don't leave me
to pity him the more. We thus conversed
Well, there ain't no use - of me workin' so hard
went down and entered on an uncouth path.
Sunflow'rs waitin' for the sunshine
reverberated through the starless air;
You've got a true love in your heart
“Before I tear myself from this abyss,
Wait for the light to shine wait for the light to shine
“My son, within these rocks, he then began,
I heard her say, "I'll meet you someday,
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because they ’ve gone with us in our direction.
For years we both have lived on pride, dear
thou that, though breathing, go’st to see the dead!
Where the soul of man never dies
which robbed thee of the fair Mount’s short approach.
It's then I really know you're gone
the company, on whom Càccia d’ Asciàn
All my life I've been a loser
sits where the shore lies lowest round about.
every day and every night
not fix his teeth in thee, be not too tired
I leave you the day, to help all your neighbors
“Before thou enter any further, know
I made a mistake, dear, by tellin' you lies
No further in it did we read that day.
I can't keep the tears from my eyes
as what was here; for even if Tambernich
THAT OLE MOON ABOVE, WAS JUST MADE FOR LOVE,
said I to him, “on this express condition,
Be on your way, that's all she wrote
and in that flame of theirs they now bewail
To live forever more, just o'er on heaven's shore
there Socrates and Plato I beheld,
I knew you couldn't win, I told you from the start
and less so are the monuments. Thereat,
But she went to heaven, just one year ago
When I had heard my Leader speak the names
"Oh! who was that brave girl so sweet?"
no more Benàco, Mincio is its name,
So that you and I could live
you taught me how man makes himself eternal;
when slowly through the window came a plaintive funeral hymn
When Nature ceased from making animals
And then go home and pull my hair
he had attained the other butting place.
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ
for flames were spread about within the tombs,
It shines to light the fires of home
“and ask what fault thrust him down here; for I
Somebody else stood by your side
that with thine eyes thou quite attain the face
'Cause My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
Jàcopo Rusticùcci, Arrigo and Mosca,
Lord you better keep it on your mind
I saw that Brutus who drove Tarquin out,
I have heard your stories about your fast trains
to look upon the other evil born.
When you'll be blue
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by name, and chosen by thy town together,
The roses were bloomin' there on the Border
have through a hundred thousand perils reached
She's long gone, and now I'm lonesome blue
my voice, however, came not as I thought.
When I know you don't love me
like these, and took such executioners
That they called Chapman Town
that it would be too much, wert thou alive?
But I'm learnin' how to count in rhyme
“Philosophy said he to me, “points out
Ev'rything's again' me and it's got me down
And now the woeful sounds of actual pain
Here with the shadows around me
About strange punishments must I make verses,
God why must these living dead know pain with every breath
and said: “Go on, for I am strong and bold!
Sinner hear now what I say
Now I would have thee know that, when down here
He spoke of his angel, a dear baby girl
From that time onward snakes have been my friends,
Mindin' other people's business seems to be high-toned
Her eyes were shining brighter than a star,
By the singin' waterfall.
words caused by pain, accents of anger, voices
I know I'd still want you.
the sight of one was offered to mine eyes,
Death may be lingering near.
opposed to that the great dry land o’ercovers,
I went to the country - just the other day
for shelter we withdrew behind the lid
For years we both have lived on pride, dear
as one a new one builds, one plugs the ribs
Give my heart just a word of sympathy
than thine hath been; my Teacher said to me,
and the night before
and such as he who dreameth of his harm,
Now it's a shame the way she keeps a good man broke.
Gluttons
The first scene is that of a gambler
when he had turned him to the right, we passed
I returned home, but I waited too long
feel tired out by talking of Sardinia.
You'll find that life is still worth while
And he replied to me: “They each and all
But could not face fact, somehow
thou ’lt see the sad folk who have lost the Good
for water... cool, clear water.
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But when these words had travelled to the tip,
A little fellow about my size got tired of being pushed about
on feeling himself taken, said to me:
I Told A Lie To My Heart.
he claws the spirits, flays and quarters them.
Take my advice or you'll curse the day
now from the flames, now from the heated soil.
Baby, we're really in love.
that face and paunch no longer correspond,
To see my Uncle Bill and sorta pass the time away
left the place empty here, and upward rushed.
Now I don't wanna show you the door
to me its walls appeared to be of iron.
I can't afford to lose her now
entirely turned around, but I ’ve not seen it,
But honey among tigers you'd be queen
what I became, of both of these deprived.
My shirts they came up wrinkled,
the two entwining serpents with his rod,
When I pass by all the people say
he ’ll not prevent our going down this rock.
Never was much fun to me
“and ask what fault thrust him down here; for I
I told them all we were meant for each other
thy mouth in speaking evil gapeth wide;
The river of life
because of having fraudulently robbed
It's headin' for destruction now
thou couldst have seen there, whom the servants’ Servant
Are you walkin and a-talkin with the lord?
for I could not, such pity stirs my heart!
I could smile and say that I don't care
first here, then there, they helped them with their hands,
If sugar seems sweet then you ought to meet
after the Final Sentence will they grow,
So get it on over (move it on over)
I ’d speak of more; but I can come and talk
As I helped him cross the highway
to others is, for that is known to none.
Where the soul........never dies.
making a horrid roar beneath us; hence,
Please tell me darlin' why can't you be true
past all resistance by the minds of men;
Then I bow my head and weep
devised by him to cast himself below!
And now I've got another date
and to a meadow of fresh grass we came.
and carry on
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one hammers at the stern, and at the prow another;
As though his heart would break
if I deserved of you or much or little,
Honky Tonkin', Honey Baby
so quickly through the gloomy air! From me,
Can't you hear the Blessed Saviour Callin' You?
We went away, and up the flight of stairs,
'Cause I just don't like this way of livin'.
and there I set myself to practice graft,
You're just tryin'
by pirates, nay, nor by the Argolic folk.
If you will listen
when ’mong so many foes they saw themselves.
You'll be broke but I'll be broker tonight we're settin' the woods on fire
first here, then there, they helped them with their hands,
Well Lord I thought I would cry
makes beckoning signs to them, collects them all,
and these silver tears you're shedding now, is just interest on the loan.
And I: “Good Leader, I but keep my heart
The first three months, was all OK,
Before me there was naught created, save
'N' the gambler's still waitin' for that Ace in the hole
and, all alone, I saw the Saladin.
Tryin' hard to play the game
the tears, which with the boiling it unlocks,
The maiden wore her beads and braids and hoped someday he'd talk
but forced I am by thy transparent speech,
"My wife's been sick - the young'ns, too
“the reason for my gazing there, thou wouldst,
You're my gal and I'm your feller dress up in your frock of yeller
which from its bed removeth every plant.
Someday you'll call my name and I won't answer
before the water’s noise was so near by,
She never close her eyes to sleep till we were all in bed
And I said: “Teacher, clearly I behold
would you stop and try to save
An old fame in the world proclaims them blind,
I like candy, I like cake, I like jam but goodness sake
when me she forced to enter yonder wall,
That it was gossip, not flowers, she had on her mind
is first received, it transfixed one of them,
Last night I dreamed of heaven and I saw my mother there
is barking with three throats, as would a dog,
Praise the Lord I saw the light.
O woeful me! O how I shook with fear,
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
the Phoenix dies, and then is born again,
And her name is Kathy Mae
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but distant from the goat shall be the grass.
Where all..........is joy
“So may your memory never fly away
All because I loved no one but you.
one of his kinsmen, who with him performed
he was some mothers darlin, he was some mothers son
Thereat my Leader with great strides departed,
Met a lad while on my travels
turned right around at them with threatening looks.
Some friends of mine asked me to go out on a huntin' spree
and gave them back to him who now was weak.
Both footsore and weary I rested awhile
I hence perceived the crossing-place was there.
I built a world in my heart
and which the scourge was likewise driving on,
From this world I'll soon be goin'
Thither we came, and from it in the ditch
I want to know each step you take that I may walk the same
Now go thy way; and since thou livest still,
She smiled that old familiar smile and prayed to God to keep
My kindly Teacher then began to say:
We'll sit close to one another up one street and down the other
Then “Oh! said I, “art thou already dead?
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
which hath the world’s good things thus in her claws?
We were happy, oh so happy little darlin'
and thou for more than any other demon!
Well shut my mouth, i'm a'headin' south, on the dixie cannon-ball
those whom the wind drives, those the rain beats down,
You don't dress up in satin,
Even as at Arles, where marshy turns the Rhone,
Since my baby said goodbye
began to quiver with a murmuring sound,
Lord what am I comin' to
by sign of either land or sky, set out
So ease it on over (move it on over)
Hast thou no recollection of the words
And his eyes they brightly sparkle at the pretty things he view
Hence, that my Leader might give heed, I placed
Are you walkin and a-talkin with the lord?
Of Cadmus, and of Arethusa, too,
Where all..........is joy
I then replied to him, “you had not yet
Well I'm in love I'm in love with a beautiful gal
we have them now behind us, and I so
I Told A Lie To My Heart.
I’m in the body I have always had.
I heard that lonesome whistle blow
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in which the sacred seed may live again
There's nothin' as sweet as my baby
by pirates, nay, nor by the Argolic folk.
If you missed me half as much as I miss you
down in that gloomy ditch in different heaps.
I'm Free At Last don't ask me why I'm cryin'
Then he to me: “Though thou pull out my hair,
Once she called me all her own
see how he writhes, and utters not a word!
Never again will I knock on your door
and round already was the moon last night;
Honky Tonkin', Honey Baby
then we with full assurance toward the town,
He who lay down at the rich mans gate
and fit to cover him and me. Renewed
I'm like a weepin'-willow, while we're apart
the arms he plied he moveth now no more.
I NEED A LITTLE LOVIN', HONEY WON'T YOU HOLD ME TIGHT.
and said: “Though I of motion be deprived,
And I shall spend eternity
and given it that vibration which the tongue,
Ev'rybody's fallin' for somebody else
but distant from the goat shall be the grass.
Cry, oh, lord.
“If I have rightly understood thy words,
Where the soul of man never dies
for fires I now beheld, and wailings heard;
Oh heavenly Father help me understand
an arrow from a bowstring, sped away.
Today the tempest rolls high
so stuck together, that in little time
All I need is a bride who want's a big-hearted groom
the frightful mouth, to which no sweeter psalms
Will you please make up your mind what you want me to do
After a little run both father and sons
At night when I am sad and lonely
Therefore get up! O’ercome thy troubled breath
The grass in the valley is starting to die
I closed mine ears. Such pain as there would be,
Colorado and Nevada through the deserts burnin' door
That Thaïs is, the prostitute, who answered
They sang like they meant it, they all clapped their hands
through a disloyal tyrant’s treachery.
If I can stand the next six, my friends all say I'll be fixed,
wondrously twisted each of them appeared
When we meet our love ones there
allotted to it; but where Fortune hurls it,
Feelin' dandy, doin' swell
Canto CCLXXV
Justice Divine is over here tormenting
Just give me a ring
And one began: “Even if the wretched nature
We fight and we fuss like a dog and a cat
which made me hasten all the more to come;
But nobody's lonesome for me
say who thou art; and should I not relieve thee,
Why Don't You Love Me Like You Used To Do.
And thereupon, as if hot wax they were,
No tear-........... dimmed eyes
because they ’ve gone with us in our direction.
I'm sorry for - your victim now
which utterly confounded me with grief,
YA BRACE YA SELF AN YA COURAGE GROWS
panting like one worn out, my Teacher said,
And call around next May or June
in Rome, in days of false and lying gods.
On the Tennessee Border
preceded me, are gathered ’neath my head,
Sinner hear me when I say
reveal in any one such cruelty,
One you say, and ten I see
One day, for pastime merely, we were reading
Do you think that it's smart to jump from heart to heart
Then more than ever yet did I fear death,
AND WAIT AROUND FOR HIM TO LIGHT
who in the seeming heifer was conceived;
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
and curb my genius more than I am wont,
And since she's gone to Heaven
Dost thou not hear the anguish of his cry?
The beachcomber's waitin' for the ride. (tide)
as to the notes of storks they set their teeth.
But neither one really got mad
thus, as he wheeled, each turned his face toward me,
The Angel of Death
behold who sickens all the world with stench!
Cause her daddy had gone far away,
her final swaddling bands are nard and myrrh.
For they would only bring me pain
sitting on cushions, or ’neath canopies;
I just don't like the things you're doin'
but said no more; because there struck mine eyes
And from way out in the darkness, see that headlight gleam
since he could not so trace it with his eyes,
You're drifting to far from the shore
by saying that a man, when once prepared,
Though our paths in life have parted
Canto CCLXXVI
Of all wrong-doing which in Heaven wins hate
As I travel down life's road
and there I set myself to practice graft,
Such love as Jesus did impart
Then Virgil said: “Tell him immediately:
The Angel of Death
who nearer than the rest are at his side;
And call my name
Thereat my Leader with great strides departed,
If you're lovin' me like i'm lovin' you
One who withdrew from singing praise to God,
Where the cotton grows and the suwanee flows,
and said to me: “Now be thou strong and bold!
Then I began to wonder, if I had made a blunder,
will drive the other out with much offence.
Till one day I was toted home and mama didn't know her little boy
is pity. Who, then, guiltier is than he
And my way is clear and bright
to look at people, when the moon is new;
I'm gonna find me a river, one that's cold as ice
and that, which ran not back, but was retained,
You know that you are free to go dear
the cold, and from his eyes, his saddened heart
Why Don't You Love Me like you used to do.
bowed down and closed, when brightened by the sun,
Now I'm so happy no sorrow in sight
My mind, to vent its feelings of disdain,
And to him these words he did say.
the other, Pholus, who so wrathful was.
What can i do, where can i go
that Attila who was a scourge on earth,
The beachcomber's waitin' for the ride. (tide)
One and the selfsame tongue first wounded me,
If you're lovin' me like i'm lovin' you
and less so are the monuments. Thereat,
Skies above are dark and stormy
Now, Reader, of a new sport shalt thou hear!
I found myself a'bleedin', and very much a'needin',
so blocks me, that I cannot see beyond,
That old log train
The Navarrese chose well his time, stood firmly
Never again will I knock on your door
whoever of your world deprives himself,
If you're lovin' me like i'm lovin' you
that, after it, I hardly could have checked them.
I'll just set back and watch you,
still sports for this a hairless chin and neck.
And now I'll rock...yeah rock...
Canto CCLXXVII
but who art thou, that art become so foul?
It should have been a tear of gladness
and that, but looking at the shade, he shudders;
And Plea-ease - don't let me kiss you
above. On this side have their burial-place
With your dying breath
the three, who this as answer understood,
You're Window Shoppin' that's all.
and that, to excuse me, I await Carlìn.
Comes down after you
I was a poet, and of that just man,
HE CRIED THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND,
said: “How am I to come, if thou take fright,
A House Without Love is not a home.
And he to me: ’T is well to know of some;
Are you walkin, (are you walkin)
The Teacher therefore said: “If thou break off
Beneath the cold clay
whoever of your world deprives himself,
I can plow and milk the cow
trusting, since girded thus, to make amends;
And my Ma-in-law just moved in to stay
unhelped by Will Divine and favoring fate?
He likes everything from a soup to hay
than thine hath been; my Teacher said to me,
Somebody else stood by your side
whoever of your world deprives himself,
I NEED A LITTLE LOVIN', HONEY WON'T YOU HOLD ME TIGHT.
O’er those dead bones of hers they built a town;
Words that you told me
we ever reached the lofty tower’s foot,
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you.
and none of them had gone to conquer Acre,
Ready to live in Paradise
the treachery. But stretch thy hand here now,
I'm a number not a name
there, save Bonturo, every one ’s a grafter;
Well, I said I would leave if you didn't change
so high or thick, whoe’er he may have been.
down behind the trees and the moon is slowly rising
which next appeared before me, of a Lion,
A distant uncle passed away and left me quite a batch
And make it known to Fano’s two best men,
There sat your picture all alone
who fell down headlong from the walls at Thebes.
Hows about keepin' steady company?
And then I said: ‘O brothers, ye who now
Have you finished your building in Glory
Canto CCLXXVIII
We thereupon proceeded further still,
Why don't you say the things you used to say
I say, continuing, that long before
Each eye looked toward the west
of that bad Worm who perforates the world.
I knew you couldn't win, I told you from the start
I ’d be, hadst thou already been obeyed;
They nailed his hands there on the cross
of others not to speak, is craving for thee;
And when I find me that river, Lord I'm gonna pay the price, oh Lord
and the other one, who thought himself too slow,
Just give me a ring
so arrogant toward God; not even he,
Tears you cannot hide and tears you cannot keep,
all chosen iron is he down from there,
BUT WHEN I TRIED TO HOLD HER HAND,
while to the gnat the fly is giving way, —
Lonely years of tears and sorrow
hence, utterly confused, I checked my steps.
And watch the fellars in this town
the first ring, hence, torments in separate troops
And when our work is over heaven with Him we'll share
From rock to rock they course into this vale;
Rock my cradle once again.
that, when he saw his wife approaching him,
So there'll be no teardrops tonight.
the latter thereupon said unto me,
That for you ain't got nothin' but time
escape so secretly, that I should fail
I knew you'd wake up and find her missin'
Downward I looked, and yet my living eyes
I got the lovesick blues
The banks were crusted over with a mould
That always when we got back home we'd find her waitin' there
More fearful of the abyss I then became,
Farmer's daughter's waitin' for the salesman
if it please that one; for with him I go.
When you hair has turned from Gold to Silver
whereat its trunk cried out: “Why dost thou rend me?
If I jumped in the river I would prob'ly drown
Tully and Livy, and moral Seneca;
I hate to think it all over
fly to the other bank; on both sides then
for the little boy who lived there has done gone and run away.
“The anguish of the people here below,
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
was now releasing from their weary toil
Baby, we're really in love
Canto CCLXXIX
protrude not from the surface of the pitch.
When I'd crawl back if I could
All tongues would certainly fall short of it,
OF HOW OUR SAVIOR DIED, AS THEY NAILED HIS HANDS,
from which the Roman’s noble seed went forth;
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
Then he, as woe on woe he heaped, went off,
down behind the trees and the moon is slowly rising
toward me, that well my face may answer thee;
I'm so lonesome I could cry
Now go thy way; and since thou livest still,
I know I can never make you happy
who ’rt wont to be my comfort when afraid?
I'll have a new body
fall thou upon my head a thousand times.
Once dear I thought
Thus he to me, as, meanwhile, on we went.
And I'm durn near - down with the flu
It grows into a sapling and wild tree;
Of a heartbroken mother and baby
in order to behold the next ravine
I eat three bones for dinner today, then tried to tree a 'Coon
Teacher, said I on rising, “talk to me
I'm so thankful for each golden hour of happiness
Make us not go to Tìtyus or to Tìpheus;
Won't you sometimes think of me
The infernal hurricane, which never stops,
WALKED MY GAL HOME TO THE DOOR, AND ASKED HER FOR A KISS,
was Alp-like, and, through what was also there,
Should you go first and I remain for battles to be fought
we with our oars made wings for our mad flight,
If you can't treat me right then get out of my life
Ah, how disdainful did he seem to me!
And i know there's some one waitin', with the sweetest how you are,
like flakes of snow that fall on windless Alps.
You give away your kisses
saying: “Away there with the other dogs!
Well I'm nobody's sugar daddy now
he asked me for advice, but I kept still,
If you go for me like i go for you
toward us; now, therefore, look ahead of thee,
I thought I'd make her happy if I stepped aside
and who was Sàssol Mascheroni called;
I love you still - you win again.
The soles of all were, both of them, on fire;
And drive your buggy back to town
He freed mine eyes, and said: “Direct thou now
Say Dan can't you see that big green tree,
Canto CCLXXX
And she to me: “There is no greater pain
HONEY DO YOU LOVE ME, HUH, HONEY DO YOU LOVE ME, HUH,
And I, when toward me he had stretched his arm,
I've been a fool about you, for way too long
till at Govèrnolo it joins the Po.
Where an angel from above
“So may your seed eventually repose,
You wore out a brand new trunk
was likewise wont to be the source of, first,
Of a love I thought was true
And such as he who unwills what he willed,
Lips so sweet and tender like petals fallin' apart
appears. But night is coming up again,
Old cupid just gave us a shove
where for a thousand there should refuge be;
Deep in my heart, there's a burnin'
he gathers in his grapes, or ploughs his field;
There's a singin' waterfall
God hates it most; therefore the fraudulent
When you're not in my arms
and fell as falls a body that is dead.
and perhaps those memories will always last
As little flowers by the chill of night
Don't mind these tears there in my eyes
“O Phlegyas, Phlegyas, said my Master then,
These doggone blues never make me cry
and one is here forbidden too long a stay.
For I know she's waiting up there
More than a thousand o’er the gates I saw
Like a bird that's lost its mate in flight
adjudged thine accusation of thyself?
I can't even spell my name, my heads in such a spin
my heart, before the tears freeze up again.
And now I've got another date
And he to me: “This wretched kind of life
And teach them how to bow their heads
and breast are of the purest silver, then,
Just a picture from life's other side
such that all eyes would be repelled by it.
KAW-LIGA - A, just stands there as lonely as can be
‘O courteous Mantuan spirit, thou whose fame
You got me chasin' Rabbits, pullin' out my hair and Howlin' At The Moon.
Oh, what a marvel it appeared to me,
THERE WAS NOTHING I WOULDN'T DO,
and this is true, as that I speak to thee.
We took the night life off the streets and brought it in our own homes
From hence He drew the earliest parent’s shade,
Drifting alone
Canto CCLXXXI
What is it, then? Why, why dost thou hold back?
I wonder, I wonder - what she's thinking of
I saw, so frozen in a single hole,
But when that open ro-oad starts to callin' me
Commingled are they with that worthless choir
The Holy One so dear
and thus was causing pain to three of them.
'Cause ne'er again will I ask you to stay.
was seen by him to fornicate with kings;
Just as in years gone by,
To make him out I therefore stayed my feet;
Jesus is calling, calling night and day
but by an art divine, boiled there below,
Such a beautiful dream
as on a rock of that hard crag I leaned,
why don't you mind your own business
occasion such petitions in our church.
Honey baby, please come home
her Polydorus lying on the beach,
I made a mistake, dear, by tellin' you lies
On seeing us descend, they all stopped short,
Only six months you see,
of looking into it, unless one climb
Simple tunes are hard to sing
Know, then, that I Count Ugolino was,
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
and said: “One of the seven kings was he,
While girls beguiled with lipstick danced to saxophones
and he of Brescia, and the Veronese,
Take these chains from my heart and set me free
associates; and never do their tongues
Ready to live in Paradise
my heart, that dear and kind paternal face
For I know that you'll never be true
I dared not from the path descend, to go
You've never walked in that man's shoes or saw things through his eyes
Her permutations have no truce at all;
We'll go and lose them blues
I ’d be, hadst thou already been obeyed;
You are on my lonely mind.
and, thus robed, sorrowing go my way.
Sinner man won't you stop now and pray
“Ye that are pressing thus your breasts together,
Higgama, jiggama, horney cuff,
When I thus heard him speak to me in anger,
Just listen to the whistle, it'll thrill you one and all,
and one of such as these am I myself.
If you'll be a baby to me
Canto CCLXXXII
When we o’er Malebolgë’s final cloister
The Angel of Death
seized me so strongly for his love of me,
Why should I pay, tell me why should I cry
Therefore keep still, for thou art rightly punished;
AN KICKS HIS HEELS UP TO THE SKY
do thou, then, strip it from us now.’ Thereat,
Since the day that we met you've been nothin' but worry
hard in the face of one I struck my foot.
Yeah the honky tonk blues
then let Caprara and Gorgona move,
When God comes and gathers his jewels.
the bolt will cleave the mist in such a way,
Just because I'm feelin' blue
and Mantuans with respect to fatherland.
(Oh you) know that I love you no other will do
calls him again, that death may be delayed.
Comes down after you
which ’neath the rain’s tormenting punishment
And the last word led to a divorce
except the stubborn devils who came out
That I will never know contentment
Ah, Constantine, of how much ill was mother,
And my way is clear and bright
against us at the entrance of the gate,
Too many parties and too many pals will break your heart someday
and cried: “This is the one, for he speaks not;
I ASKED MY GAL TO MARRY ME, RECKON WHAT SHE SAID,
And he to me: “Thy town, which is so full
My Son Calls Another Man Daddy
and he sets fire to whomsoe’er he meets.
Got nothin' to kill to put in the smokehouse
as greyhounds are, when from their chains unleashed.
Maybe you've been cheated in the past,
who wishes now that he had given heed
I thought of things that might have been
through fearing lest the high-tide break upon them;
And my hair turns whiter than snow
close-fisted; these, shorn of their very hair.
His servants will bring, a ring for my finger
Art thou so quickly sated with the wealth,
I want to ho hold you close to my heart...
his memory; hence his shade is furious here.
I'll just set back and watch you,
Ah, with what caution men should deal with those,
Honky Tonkin', Honey Baby
Of Cadmus, and of Arethusa, too,
We'll meet up in heaven, someday.