John Fogerty
dalszövegek/lyrics

Paradise

When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
There's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn
And daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay?
Well, I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the green river
To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
And daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay?
Well, I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
And daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay?
Well, I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
When I die let my ashes float down the green river
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester Dam
I'll be halfway to heaven with paradise waiting
Just five miles away from wherever I am
And daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay?
Well, I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.

Moody River

Moody river, more deadly than the vainest knife
Moody river, your muddy water took my baby's life
Last Saturday evenin' came to the old oak tree
It stands beside the river where you were to meet me
On the ground your glove I found with a note addressed to me
It read "Dear love, I've done you wrong, now I must set you free"
No longer can I live with this hurt and this sin.
I just couldn't tell you that guy was just a friend"

I looked into the muddy water and what could I see?
I saw a lonely, lonely face just lookin' back at me
Tears in his eyes and a prayer on his lips
And the glove of his lost love at his fingertips

Gunslinger

Lookin' out across this town
Kinda makes me wonder how
All the things that make us great
Got left so hard behind

This used to be a peaceful place
Decent folks hard workin' ways
Now they hide behind locked doors
Afraid to speak their minds

I think we need a gunslinger
Somebody tough to tame this town
I think we need a gunslinger
There'll be justice all around

Someone let the fences go
Wild eyed bunch moved in you know
Shootin' up the streets shoutin' everybody down
Dogs all runnin' loose

Wrecked the papers, closed the school
Tired old judge got roughed up too
No one left to make a stand
They whisper, "What's the use?"

I think we need a gunslinger
Somebody tough to tame this town
I think we need a gunslinger
There'll be justice all around

I think we need a gunslinger
Somebody tough to tame this town
I think we need a gunslinger
There'll be justice all around

I think we need a gunslinger
Somebody tough to tame this town
I think we need a gunslinger
There'll be justice all around

Long Dark Night

George is in the jungle
Knockin' on the door
Come to get your children
Wants to have a war

Come on, lord you'd better run,
Be a long dark night before this thing is done

Brownie's in the outhouse
Katrina on the line
Government's a disaster
But George, he says it's fine

Come on, lord you'd better run,
Be a long dark night before this thing is done

Rummy's in the kitchen messin' with the pan
Dickie's in the back stealing everything he can
Come on, Lord you'd better run,
Be a long dark night before this thing is done

You better run, you better run,
Lord you better run, Lord you better run,

Runnin' down the highway
Shoutin' to the Lord
George's got religion
And you know he can't afford more, yeah

Come on, Lord you'd better run
Be a long dark night before this thing is done
Be a long dark night before this thing is done, oh Lord.

Natural Thing

Well the flower was made for beauty
And the bee was made to sting
All around this world
Honey it's a natural thing

It can shake the high and mighty
Bring a strong man to his knees
All around this world
Honey it's a natural thing

When a man gets up in the morning
He got to find that tiger to tame
All around this world
You know it's a natural thing

But a man alone ain't nothin'
Every Tarzan needs a Jane
All around this world
Honey it's a natural thing

Well the little girls lookin' so pretty
They make a poor man feel like a king
All around this world
Honey it's a natural thing

It drives a man to cross the desert
Or risk his life on a stormy sea
All around this world
Yeah it's a natural thing

Well the flower was made for beauty
And the bee was made to sting
All around this world
Honey it's a natural thing

All around this world.

Radar

Well here she comes again
She's a-lookin' for me
Better make my move
Better head out to the high seas

If she get's me in her sights
I'll be workin' all day
No time to take a snooze
Or watch the football game

She got the radar workin'
Workin' overtime
She got the radar workin'
Torpedoes at 12 o'clock high

Well I can't go to Vegas
And I can't go to town
But could I maybe go to Freddie's
You know to lay down

But, it's a-maybe do this
And it's a-maybe do that
Uh by time I get to doin'
You know she's breakin' my back

She go the radar workin'
Workin' overtime
She got the radar workin'
Topedoes at 12 o'clock high

I'm just mindin' my own business
Don't mean nobody no harm
Ah but here she comes again now
Ta-twista-twisin' my arm

Oh Oh there's a chickenmunk
She got the radar workin'
Workin' overtime

She got the radar workin'
Topedoes at 12 o'clock high

Blueboy

Way back in the hills
There's a ploace I know
People comes from miles around
Just to watch 'ol Dooley do the show
Ooh let the blueboy play
Ooh let the blueboy play
Gonna ride the mule
Gonna chase him too
Pullin' on-a pullin' on-a
Pullin' on-a pony
He goes...

Soon's the sun go down
That's when the fun begins
Hitch your wagon down the track
Up to the roadhouse
And come on in
Ooh let the blueboy play
Ooh let the blueboy play
Gonna ride the mule
Gonna chase him too
Pullin' on-a pullin' on-a
Pullin' on-a pony
He goes...

Sheriff says it late
Closin' time we got to go
But Dooley he don't want to quit
Ain't nobody feels like goin' home
Ooh let the blueboy play
Ooh let the blueboy play
Gonna ride the mule
Gonna chase him too
Pullin' on-a pullin' on-a
Pullin' on-a pony
He goes...

Blue Moon Nights

Help me fellas
I'm feelin' kind-a weak
The way I'm livin' just ain't right
I need somebody t' watch over me

All my blue moon nights
I want a girl to take me by the hand
Follow me right down the line
Hold me gently while we dance

All my blue moon nights
Heaven only knows I don't want to be
Just a fool, passin' through
Won't you send me an angel to walk with me

All my blue moon nights
Help me fellas
It's gettin' kind-a late
Runnin' out of precious time

She might pass me while I waste
All my blue moon nights
Heaven only knows I don't want to be
Just a fool, passin' through

Won't you send me an angel to walk with me
All my blue moon nights

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