I'd like a one-way ticket home, ticket home. Where I can watch television, talk on the telephone. But every town I wander there's a billboard on a throne.
Hup, two, three, four, marching down the street. Rolling of the drums and the trampin' of the feet. General salutes and mothers wave and weep. . Here comes the big parade.
Well, sometimes I am happy, sometimes sad. Thinkin' of the good times I have had. Thinkin' of the places I have been. Sometimes down, sometimes up, sometimes in.
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody home?. I've only called to say, I'm sorry. The drums are in the dawn and all the voices gone. And it seems that there are no more songs.
Christmas shoppers shopping on a neon city street. Another Christmas dollar for another Christmas treat. There's satin on the pretty dolls that make the children glow.
I've found my freedom. Her and I been flying down that highway of gold. My shirtsleeves are rolled, my Colt 45 is cold. I go fast till I'm going faster.
Drinks are done, daylight's come. It's morning. Crowd's moved on, everybody's gone. It's morning. . Sun's arising on the wet horizon. Another day is here.
Pre>e d. Do you have a problem,. E d. Would you like someone to solve them,. E d b7. Would you like someone to share in your misery?. E a g a g. Now, I don't know the answer, but I know a flamenco dancer.
I cried when they shot Medgar Evers. Tears ran down my spine. I cried when they shot Mr. Kennedy. As though I'd lost a father of mine. . But Malcolm X got what was coming.
Come you ranks of labor, come you union core. And see if you remember the struggles of before. When you were standing helpless on the outside of the door.
In many a time, in many a land. With many a gun in many a hand. They came by the night, they came by the day. Came with their guns to take us away. . With a knock on the door, knock on the door.
She comes from kansas city, in the middle of the land. She was the queen of the game. But love never came with a man, with a man. Now all they know is her name.
Joe Hill come over from Sweden shores. Looking for some work to do. And the Statue of Liberty waved him by. As Joe come a sailing through, Joe Hill. As Joe come a sailing through.
It was on an Indiana farm, in the middle of the country. Growin' in the fields of grain, Jim Dean of Indiana. His mother died when he was a boy, his father was a stranger.
Is there anybody here who'd like to change his clothes into a uniform?. Is there anybody here who thinks they're only serving on a raging storm?. Is there anybody here with glory in their eyes.
In the heat of the summer. When the pavements were burning. The soul of a city was ravaged in the night. After the city sun was sinkin'. . Now no one knows how it started.
Pre>e g#m. Sometime's I feel that the world isn't mine. C#m f b. It feeds on my hunger and tears on my time. E. And I'm tired,. C#m. Yes, I'm tired. E g#m.
Pre>intro : g f c d. . G f c d. Meet the king of cowboys, he rides a pale pony. G f c d b. He fights the bad boys brings them to their knees. C. He patrols the highways from the air.
Oh, I marched to the battle of New Orleans. At the end of the early British war. The young land started growing. The young blood started flowing. But I ain't marching anymore.
Pre> b em c7 d em. How long, how long can we go on. F# g b. How long, how long can we go on,. C d. This troubled land may never last. C d em. There is no future in the past.