C G Am
1. Do you know what to do
C D7 G
Do you know what is true
F C G Am
Is there some one there for you D7 Am D7 G G7
There for you

2. Do you know where to go
To take it fast of take it slow
Do you know what you need to know
Need to know

Chorus:

F G C
Packing up, taking off
F G Am
Setting sail across the soft soft ocean
F G Am
There’s one way to find out
D7 G G7
What its all about

3. Do you know night from day
Do you know what you should say
Should you keep it or give it away
Away

Packing up, taking off . . .
 

Papa’s in the back room
Plucking on the string bass
Used to play the trombone
But he gave it up so
He could keep the back beat
With the fellas up the street
He meets with them once a week
To give the folks at home a treat

Playing that cowboy music
Feels good to be working hard
Playing that cowboy music
It’s what we do, it’s who we are

Out there in the barn yard
Dancing in the fruit shed
Harvesting is over
Now its time to party
Got a pretty little girl
I met her back in grade school
That’s before I dropped out
Who needs school anyhow

When your playing that cowboy music . . .

We ain’t got no
Technological
Am/fm radio
No phonographs
Or record stacks
Just old guitars
And pots ‘n pans

Papa’s in the back room
He’s still plucking on his string bass
I play the piano
I’m just trying to keep it up so
Everybody here is singing
No body here’s a singer
Some of us are shouters
Some of us are singers

We’re playing that cowboy music . . .

We ain’t got no . . .

Every one knows the words
Everyone sings along
Not because it is a hit
Just because it’s a real good song
 

Cross road coughing
Scare crow calling
Seeds are falling in the crystal light

Blackbird laughing
Raven slashing
Black wing blazed the shade of night

A penny saved, a penny earned
Give away the house we burned

Another day its gone for good
When all that's left is firewood
Is firewood
Is firewood

Sister's habit
Got to have it
Smoke stack grab it in the smoke

The joker's diamond
Is bright and shining
The Queen of spades has just gone broke

A penny saved, a penny earned
We'll give away the house we burned

Find a stray and fix it firm
We'll fill the ditch with a string of pearls
We'll let it burn
With good time germs

A sinister minister and glimmering pretty boys
They get high on the morphine and slip out the back door
Sipping on nicotine, step in the gulf stream
Click on the high beams and burn it on down

The fearless farmer
Forgot who you are
Just some hot air in the void

Between to lovers
Who got it coming
Something's underneath it all

A penny saved, a penny earned
Give away the house we burned
Another day is gone for good
And all that's left is firewood
Firewood
 

Looking at these pictures on my wall
People that I don’t see anymore
People that I don’t see anymore
Except for hanging on my wall

Sometimes I just want to take them down
Can not stand them hanging around
Can not stand them hanging around
That’s why I take them down

They’re just frozen, frozen
Bound by glass unbroken
Fenced in by a wooden frame
Hanging from my wall
Frozen, frozen
Remembrances and tokens
Fenced in by a wooden frame
On my walls just hanging

Forgotten friends, misplaced family
Some are dead, some are still living
But neither one have I seen recently
Except for in my memory

Yet somehow I always fade away
Gone tomorrow but still here today
Like sleeping dogs lying where they may
Dream away the day

Yes, we’re just frozen, frozen
Bound by glass unbroken
Fenced in by a wooden frame
Hanging from my wall
Frozen, frozen
Remembrances and tokens
Fenced in by a wooden frame
On my walls just hanging

Life isn’t just some lonesome road
Success isn’t just someone that you know
Happiness ain’t what you can behold
Destiny ain’t just getting old

You may love them pictures on the wall
Smiles aren’t all that we recall
But love and loss is part of it all
Its part of it all

Frozen, frozen
Bound by glass unbroken
Fenced in by a wooden frame
Hanging from my wall
Frozen, frozen
Remembrances and tokens
Fenced in by a wooden frame
On my walls just hanging

Piss It Away

Pretty Jane

Pretty Jane, Precious Jane Never be so shy Meet me in the evening When the moon is in the rye Spring's waning fast, love And corn is in the ear Summer nights are coming And the moonshine’s bright and clear Pretty Jane, Precious Jane Never be so shy Meet me in the evening When the moon is in the rye Pretty Jane Precious Jane Never be so shy Meet me in the evening When the moon is in the rye. Name the day The wedding day And I will buy, will buy the ring Boys and Girls In fine white favors Village bells will ring. Spring is waning fast, love And corn is in the ear Summer nights are coming And the moonshine’s bright and clear Pretty Jane, Precious Jane Never be so shy Meet me in the evening When the moon is in the rye Pretty Jane, Precious Jane Never be so shy Meet me in the evening When the moon is in the rye

Professor's Blues

Downtown San Francisco Has got a feeling that’ll get you low You gotta hold back like a downtown disco Gotta stick to the things you know Cannot believe my eyes when I fell for a loop Chicken shack funk attack and let a beauty be loose And to my shock what do I see San Francisco at its finest down on Polk and Green Another rainy day I’ve got no words to say How my time unfolds I think I found a way I’m gonna wash out all the grey Stuck in side my soul Don’t think about it There’s money in the bank Don’t think about it Cause all those beers I drank Don’t think about it I’ve got no one to thank Not at all Downtown San Francisco . . . If you give me the city Where gritty is pretty I’m making love over hills Stand out like a titty So get your boogie down And avoid the clowns Moving in this town To shaking round and round I’m just walking the streets Minding my own I got my books in my bag And no need for a coat Cause its lovely on this rainy day I got my roots in L.A. and my home by the bay