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1972**lf**Writer(s): Michael Martin Murphey, Larry Cansler**lf****lf**SUNRISE OVERTURE**lf**Instrumental**lf****lf****lf**CALICO SILVER**lf****lf**No rain and the weather got warm**lf**Broke down and I sold my farm**lf**Headed for the silver strike**lf**I took my wife**lf**Calico silver gave us fight**lf****lf**You could hear the miners sing**lf**When they made their hammers ring**lf**You could hear them singing out**lf**Oh, when they found**lf**Calico silver, oh, in the ground**lf****lf**Paint the streets with silver**lf**Let the wagons roll**lf**Don''t those mountains look just like Jerico**lf****lf**Fifteen years down in the mines**lf**I watched the silver shine**lf**Listened to the big wheels churn**lf**And they were turned**lf**by Calico silver that we earned**lf****lf**Pay was short and the laughter was long**lf**Nails in the pine were strong**lf**We thought nothing could go wrong**lf**Not counting on**lf**Calico silver to be gone.**lf****lf**Paint the streets with silver**lf**Let the wagons roll**lf**Don''t those mountains look just like Jerico**lf****lf****lf**WRITE ME DOWN**lf****lf**Write me down**lf**Don''t forget my name**lf**Write me down**lf**Don''t forget my name**lf****lf**Father, are you with me?**lf**Mother, are you there?**lf**Brother, can you hear me?**lf**Sister, do you care?**lf****lf**(Write me down. Don''t forget my name)**lf**(Write me down. Don''t forget my name)**lf**Write me down. Write me down**lf**(Write me down. Don''t forget my name)**lf**Please don''t forget m-m-m-my name**lf****lf**(Write me down)**lf**Write me down. Write me down**lf**(Don''t forget me name)**lf**P-P-Please don''t forget my. Don''t forget my name**lf****lf****lf**WAY IT USED TO BE**lf****lf**Strawberries, fire engine, ice cream parties**lf**Made the festival too.**lf**Wooden sidewalk, happy birthday**lf**Undertaker, ?? wearin'' big boots**lf****lf**That''s the way it used to be**lf**That''s the way it used to be**lf**Used to be, used to be**lf**Used to be, used to be**lf****lf**Locomotive, chinese laundry**lf**School house children, horses pulling a load**lf**Work a full day, help a neighbor**lf**Mashin'' whiskey, preachers saving a soul**lf****lf**That''s the way it used to be**lf**That''s the way it used to be**lf**Used to be, used to be**lf**Used to be, used to be**lf**That''s the way it used to be**lf****lf**Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh**lf**Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh**lf****lf**Strawberries, locomotive, fire engine, **lf**Chinese laundry, ice cream parlor**lf**School house children, Mandy festival too**lf****lf**Wooden sidewalks, work a full day**lf**Happy birthday, help a neighbor**lf**?? trinkets, Mashin whiskey**lf**?? wearin'' big boots**lf****lf**That''s the way it used to be**lf**That''s the way it used to be**lf**Used to be, used to be**lf**Used to be, used to be**lf**Used to be, used to be**lf**Used to be, used to be**lf**Used to be, used to be**lf****lf****lf**MADAME DE LIL AND DIABOLICAL BILL**lf****lf**Mademe De Lil was the lady of wealth**lf**She didn''t run a saloon for her health**lf**She was independant, claimed to be self made**lf**She didn''t feel she had to pull down her shades**lf****lf**She''d say, ''I don''t have to apologize.**lf**Devil take the preachin'' and damn your eyes.''**lf**Awh, she didn''t mind if you criticized.**lf**She had the last word with her 45.**lf****lf**She''d say, ''Ain''t nobody gonna railroad me.''**lf**Ha ha, ''Don''t try and tell a lady she ain''t free.''**lf****lf**Ya, Mademe De Lil, as the ladies all will**lf**Went and fell in love with Diabolical Bill**lf**She temporarily lost her head**lf**Side track by that dude that was taken her bread.**lf****lf**She''d say, ''I don''t have to apologize.**lf**I''ve got my Billy, so damn your eyes.''**lf**Awh, she didn''t mind if you told her lies.**lf**If the lies were the appropriate kind.**lf****lf**She''d say, ''Ain''t nobody gonna railroad me.''**lf**Ha ha, ''Don''t try and tell me Billy don''t love me.''**lf****lf**Mademe De Lil, she was doin'' alright**lf**Till one of her ladies of the night**lf**Told her that Bill had his hand in the til**lf**She was romantically, financially going down hill**lf****lf**''I don''t have to apologize.**lf**He''s diabolical so damn his eyes.**lf**I''ve gotta plan to fix that man.**lf**I''ll have the last word with this 45.''**lf****lf**''Ain''t nobody gonna railroad me.**lf**Don''t try and tell a lady she ain''t free.''**lf****lf**Oh, Mademe De Lil and Diabolical Bill.**lf**She wanted to scare a man she couldn''t quite kill.**lf**So, one night he was sleepin'' and he closed his eyes,**lf**Miss De Lil put blanks in his big 45.**lf****lf**The next day when a big Swed insulted his pride,**lf**He shot him down and said, ''Damn your eyes.''**lf**He stole a horse and he left that town.**lf**He didn''t know he never shot that man down.**lf****lf**And nobody railroads Mademe De Lil**lf**The joke was on Diabolical Bill**lf****lf**Hu, Now come on children, and gather ''round**lf**Did I ever tell you about the time I shot that big Swed down**lf**It was in a saloon back in 1889.**lf**Hu hu, I guess that was way back before your time.**lf****lf****lf**SCHOOL TEACHER**lf****lf**Open the windows, Virginia**lf**Let the wind blow the papers away**lf**Don''t know if you got it in ya**lf**Just like a doc the eighth grade**lf**You''ll soon be an old maid**lf****lf**School teacher, rule preacher**lf**Cool creature, school teacher**lf****lf**You''re up again, Virginia**lf**Simple arithmatic shows a delay**lf**Do all the sums deep within ya**lf**Oh, yes, and then a final grade**lf**You''ll soon be an old maid**lf****lf**School teacher, rule preacher**lf**Cool creature, school teacher**lf****lf**Oh**lf****lf**Your souls in limbo, Virginia**lf**You found a formula for your mistakes**lf**God doesn''t know where to send ya**lf**The bible black, opaque, keepsake**lf**And your red hairs goin'' gray,**lf****lf**School teacher, rule preacher**lf**Cool creature, school teacher**lf****lf**School teacher, rule preacher**lf**Cool creature, school teacher**lf**Cool creature, Cool creature**lf**Cool Creature, school teacher**lf**Cool Creature, school teacher**lf**Rule preacher, cool creature**lf****lf****lf**ROAD AGENT**lf****lf**Here lies a road agent dead on a hill**lf**Sing on sing on whippoorwill if you will**lf**Lived and died by his gun**lf**Rise up rise up morning sun**lf****lf**Rise up, son of God**lf**Rise up from the sod**lf**Quick money catch penny fly by night**lf**All are equal in his sight**lf****lf**Gone today and here tomorrow**lf**California desert to the veil of sorrow**lf**Rise up, son and go**lf**Rise up from below**lf****lf**Thunderbolts cold and flash floods roll**lf**On a glory hole soul story seldom told**lf**From a feast of whiskey and a flow of cash**lf**To the silver black ash from a dance hall flash**lf****lf**Rise up son of chance**lf**Rise up son and dance**lf**Here lies a road agent dead on a hill**lf**Sing on, sing on whippoorwill if you will.**lf****lf****lf**SALLY GREY''S EPITAPH**lf****lf**Here lies Sally Grey**lf**She came to town one day**lf**Wasn''t long ''till she went astray**lf**Now she leaves this town today**lf**For a better place we pray,**lf**Sally Grey.**lf****lf**Here lies Sally Grey**lf**She came to town one day**lf**Wasn''t long ''till she went astray**lf**Now she leaves this town today**lf**For a better place we pray,**lf**Sally Grey.**lf****lf**Sally Grey:**lf**If they only knew the way I used to think about**lf**Being something more than used up by men**lf**I might have been**lf**something more than what I am to them**lf**As they lay me down**lf****lf**I say many women are not what they seem to be**lf**They are something more than part of some scheme**lf**Some strong man''s dream**lf**Something more than what she is to him**lf**As he lays her down.**lf****lf****lf**DORSEY, MAIL CARRYING DOG**lf****lf**In the plaza, fine canine,**lf**You''ll never find a dog so fine**lf**There''s none that could compare**lf****lf**When the dog that delivered**lf**And from danger never quivered**lf**A service oh so rare**lf****lf**Most vertibrate, vegetate,**lf**And such case in dedication**lf**Dorsey did not shun**lf****lf**Missionaries, luminaries,**lf**Functionaries, and visionaries**lf**Dig the deeds he done**lf****lf**Ahhhhhh, Dorsey the mail carrying dog**lf**The carrying dog**lf**Talk about your carryin'' dog**lf**Ya, your carryin'' dog**lf****lf**People manage mail**lf**And that''s the way it was**lf**Until Dorsey came along**lf****lf**A mality hit the post master**lf**A home in bed with muster plaster**lf**Everything went wrong**lf****lf**A sprightly spotted, super shepard**lf**Lepped up like a lovable leppard**lf**Vivid volunteer**lf****lf**Run through danger, sneaky strangers**lf**Never failing, never quailing**lf**Showing far no fear**lf****lf**Ahhhhhh, Dorsey the mail carrying dog**lf**What a carrying dog**lf**Ya, talk about your carryin'' dog**lf**oh, what a carryin'' dog**lf****lf**Ruff ruff, **lf**Ruff ruff,**lf**Ahhhhhh, Dorsey the mail carrying dog**lf****lf**Writers tried to ruin Dorsey**lf**But of course, he bit their horseys,**lf**What else could he do**lf****lf**He could go through sleet and snow**lf**And rain and so, as you all know**lf**The US mail got through**lf****lf**You could hear the people cheer**lf**365 days per year**lf**The dog grew never tired**lf****lf**The postman who was sick**lf**And did it, Dorsey really did**lf**And sat home by the fire**lf****lf**Ahhhhhh, Dorsey the mail carrying dog**lf**What a carrying dog**lf**Talk about your carryin'' dog**lf**Ya, the carryin'' dog**lf**Talk about your carryin'' dog**lf****lf****lf**HARBOR FOR MY SOUL**lf****lf**Now, some believe in the Holy Ghost**lf**The Father and the Son**lf**Some just tell their hard luck story**lf**I guess this is one**lf****lf**I worked all my life ? in the mine**lf**And now that I''m gettin'' old**lf**The one thing I''m convenced of, friend**lf**I need a harbor for my soul.**lf****lf**Well, do you need it?**lf**Yes, I do.**lf**Do you believe it?**lf**Yes, I believe it.**lf**Oh, do you want it?**lf**Yes, I do.**lf**Harbor for my soul**lf****lf**When I was a young man I kept seeking**lf**But know just ?**lf**Thought my God was in the silver. I did not find him**lf**Now, unless I am a lost seed**lf**Looking for the ?**lf**A ghost ship on a troubled sea**lf**I need a harbor for my soul.**lf****lf**Well, do you need it?**lf**Yes, I do.**lf**Do you want it?**lf**Yes, I want it.**lf**Lady, do you believe it?**lf**Yes, I do.**lf**Harbor for my soul**lf****lf**If you feel your spinnin'' wheels**lf**we''re all ?**lf**A gamble looses nothing more than he wants to owe**lf**Put your money on the way out**lf**Guess somebody better ?**lf**If your ship does not come in,**lf**You need a harbor for your soul.**lf****lf**Do you believe it?**lf**Yes, I do.**lf**Well, do you need it?**lf**Yes, I need it.**lf**Do you want it?**lf**Yes, I do.**lf**Harbor for your soul**lf****lf**Ace of Kings, John McBride,**lf**Charlie Meker''s friends,**lf**Whoa, he found a million dollars**lf**But he had none at the end**lf**Every night among these canyons**lf**? to show**lf**Awwh, he climbed up on a lighthouse**lf**He needs a harbor for his soul.**lf****lf**Hay now, do you need it?**lf**Yes, I do.**lf**Awwh, do you want it?**lf**Yes, I want it.**lf**Do you believe it?**lf**Yes, I do.**lf**Harbor for your soul.
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