Hot to trot shot
Out to the hot spot
Up to the nines
With bodies in line an' feelin' so fine
What's to lose, go get 'em shoes

You take a train
You find a fascinatin' rhythm in the rain
At every stop
You hear the clippin' and the clop

You take a beat
You find a fascinatin' rhythm in your feet
It's so complete
And you know nothin' can compete

You ain't seen nothin'
You ain't seen nothin', yet

You start to palpitate
And the jeep is shakin' the snake
Like a man upon the move
For a doll who doesn't hesitate

Bad John
You hear the sound of a sad song

And when the downtown folk
All shake it on out tonite
Jeep is jake
And rakin' in the take

Bad John
You are back where you belong

She's such a sight tonite
Hello
A Caribana with a fan a top banana
In a blue savanna moon

A neck in neck
You tell her darlin' get the check
You're all electric
Up in Harlem in a swoon

Another dance
With a tropical fan
Another chance
With the topical tan

Mean swimmin' saxophones
Takin' in the wimmin' and shakin' them bones
The goat get in the fete begin
Naughty little body and set for sin

A Creole girl
Step up and say
Never say never with a casual sway
Takin' her time to come my way

Bad John
You are back where you belong

[Incomprehensible]
All reet I'm tippin' in yeah, deed I do
And while the goat is on the fire
And every note is your desire
You approve her every move

You in a spin
Come on in
She wanna grab you by the duff and tell you
Honey this is tough enough for sure

And there's the door
What are you waiting for?
And just us two
Serenading in blue

You take a frail
Who makes a copesetic caper with her tail
I'm tellin' you
She really puttin' on a do

The saxophones
You can't relax when there is rhythm in your bones
You're on the hoof
You raise a racket on the roof

Some syncopation
Makin' with the eyes an arisin' occasion
Made it in the shade
The way they played that satin serenade in blue

A hundred days and a thousand nights
In just one minute in the blue moonlight
Since you've gone away I hardly sleep
Since you left me girl, my heart can't find no peace
No peace
I was a man who stood strong and tall
Who could always run and never fall
Now I barely stand on my two feet
Maybe this could be my lonely destiny
Destiny
Can't figure out what's right or wrong
Don't know where this broken heart belongs
Belongs
Can't figure out what's right or wrong
Don't know where this broken heart belongs
Belongs
A hundred days and a thousand nights
In just one minute in the blue moonlight
Travelled through this life without a home
On these streets where I've been left to roam
To roam
To roam

She wears a blood red rose
Her face she never shows
Thru the doorway, to the window
In the light
A vision in a dream
And I don't know what it means
Is it my imagination or is it you?
Blue Jade comes to my room
She won't go
Gold shade covers the moon
And I don't know, about Blue Jade
Is it fate or destiny?
Only she does hold the key
Fallen angel, I am driven to your side
From the moment you are here
I'm a man without a fear
You're the reason, my religion, you're my guide
And when she comes to me
Lord I never wanna be
Broken hearted, disillusioned by her smile
And I know it just can't be
When I hear your symphony
Am I sleeping, is this really in my mind?
I can feel and I can see
Everytime she comes to me
I just can't believe that you're my life

I got a blue bird
A blue bird on my shoulder
I got a blue bird
A blue bird on my shoulder
I saw her standing
Standing by the water
She was naked
Her hair in great disorder
And I know why I'm flying
And the rest is lies
I sent a warning
A warning of disaster
I sent a warning
I warned of great disaster
I sent that blue bird
That blue bird down the water
I sent that blue bird
Floating down the water
And I know that I'm flying
And the rest is lies
And I know that I'm flying
And the rest is lies.

Shameless Sea
Aimlessly so blue
Midnight moon shines for you
Still marooned
Silence drifting through
Nowhere to choose
Just blue
Ceaselessly
Star-crossed you and me
Save our souls
We'll be forever blue
Waves roll
Lift us in blue
Drift us
Seep right through
Color us blue
Wait for me
Shameless you the Sea
Soon the blue
So soon
Soon the Blue
So soon

Days are longer
By yourself
You sold your soul to someone else
Now you're paying,
Can't you see
You want to pass it back to me
Told you once,
Told you twice
When you're gone
Don't expect to come back
Things don't work out
Like I planned
'Cause you've got
Yourself another man
Danger signal, danger ahead
I know you'd be better
If you thought,
If you thought I was dead
I won't tell you,
I won't tell you no lie
I'll come back
And haunt you as another guy
Things don't work out
Like I planned them
'Cause you've got
Yourself another man

"Chasing Blue Sky"
Shakin' time, she needs
Taking rides...to somewhere
Let's lose our minds, no hurry
I'm the wakeful night, with dreams...or something
Chasing blue sky,
We're chasing blue sky
Taking time from all this worry
Mesmerized by the waves of your smile
I wish that i could say something
But you're the rose colored glass i see through
I'll see you through
Chasing blue sky, we're chasing blue sky
Chasing blue sky, we're chasing blue sky
Chasing blue sky, we're chasing blue sky
Chasing blue sky, we're chasing blue sky

"Blonde Over Blue"
Some days when I'm far away
In a lonely room in a cold seclusion
Some nights when I'm wound so tight
There is no release, there is no solution
In hell there's a big hotel
Where the bar just closed and the windows never opened
No phone so you can't call home
And the T.V. works, but the clicker is broken
But in the darkness I see your light turned on
You know my weakness, you know how I respond to
Blonde over blue...your hands are cold, your eyes are fire
Blonde over blue...they shine as though you're burning inside
One word from you is all I need to be inspired
Blonde over blue...I need your inspiration tonight
These days there's a million ways
To be pulled and torn, to be misdirected
These times there are sins and crimes
On the morning shows for the disconnected
I look and I write my book
And I walk away with the wrong impressions
I don't care 'cause I've done my share And I need some time for my own obsessions
It doesn't matter, I've let that life go by
It's been forgotten 'cause all I wanted was you
Blonde over blue...your hands are cold, your eyes are fire
Blonde over blue...they shine as though you're burning inside
One word from you is all I need to be inspired
Blonde over blue...I need your inspiration tonight
These days not a damn soul prays
And there is no faith 'cause there's nothing to believe in
These days only good luck pays
If we don't get paid then we try to get even
I look and I write my book
And I have my say and I draw conclusions
Some nights when I'm wound so tight
There is no release there is no solution
But in the darkness I see your light turned on
You know my weakness, you know how I respond to
Blonde over blue...your hands are cold, your eyes are fire
Blonde over blue...they shine as though you're burning inside
One word from you is all I need to be inspired
Blonde over blue...I need your inspiration tonight

3 AM
Nowhere else to go
It's 3 AM and I miss you so
Couples are departing soon they'll all be gone
Now another day is starting
Still I linger on with
Blue Champagne
Purple shadows and blue champagne
With the echoes that still remain
I keep a blue rendezvous
Bubbles rise
Like a fountain before my eyes
And they suddenly crystallize
To form a vision of you
All the plans we started, all the songs we sang
Each little dream we knew
Seems to overtake me
Like a boomerang
Blue is the sparkle, gone is the tang
It's your refrain,
Keeps returning, as I remain
With all the memories and blue champagne
To toast the dream that was you
I'm bluer than blue champagne

Got crows in my pasture
Rats in my barn
Crows in my pasture, babe
Rats in my barn
If I was you, little bluebird
I'd up and find another farm
I've got nightshade in my meadow
Ragweed in my corn
Nightshade in my meadow
And ragweed in my corn
If I was you, little bluebird
I'd be long gone
Yes, I got squirrels in my rafters
Weevils in my hay
Squirrels in my rafters
Weevils in my hay
If I was you, little bluebird
I'd up and fly away
Fly away, baby

We met in a bar
Out on Chesapeake Bay
With her white patent boots
And her blouse red lame
A table top dancer
She would smile on cue
Those lips of an angel
Angel in blue
She's been dancing for ages
Though cities of bars
She was kickin' the habit
Of scoring in cars
She'd been drained of her spirit
All caged in this zoo
A wildcat angel
Angel in blue
And as she stared out into nowhere
I thought, yes, I thought she might break down and cry
When I whispered I thought I could love her
She just said "Baby, don't even bother to try"
And I watched as she spoke
Her words chilled my bones
All her friends did her favors
That were really just loans
And she never had dreams
So they never came true
The palest of angels
Angel in blue
And the bees they had stung her
The birds they had flown
There were guys she could number
But none she had known
And she never had dreams
So they never came true
My fade away angel
Angel in blue

In the blue Canadian Rockies
Spring is silent through the trees
And the golden poppies are blooming
'Round the banks of Lake Louise
Now, oh, how my lonely heart is aching tonight
For that girl I left behind
And, oh, what I'd give if I could be there tonight
With the sweetheart who's waitin' for me
In the blue Canadian Rockies
Spring is silent through the trees
And the golden poppies are blooming
'Round the banks of Lake Louise
Across the sea they call me
And on and on a love so true
For the blue canadian rockies
And the one I love to see
And the one I love to see

Am I blue? Am I blue?
Ain't these tears
In my eyes tellin'g you?
Am I blue? You'll be too,
If each plan with you man
Done fell through.
Was a time I was his only one,
But now I'm the sad
And lonely one,
"Lawdy," Was I gay? 'til today,
Now he's gone and we're through,
Am I blue?

The sky holds all our wishes
The dish ran away with the spoon
Chimney smoke ties the roofs to the sky
There's a hole overhead
It's only the moon
Will there ever be a tree
Grown from the seeds I've sown
Life is a path lit only by the light of those I've loved
By the light of those I love
Life's a path lit only by the light of those I've loved
By the light of those I love

She sends me blue valentines
all the way from philadelphia
to mark the anniversary
of someone that I used to be
and it feels just like there's
a warrant out for my arrest
got me checkin' in my rearview mirrror
and I'm always on the run
thats why I change my name
and I didn't think you'd ever find me here
to send me blue valentines
like half forgotten dreams
like a pebble in my shoe
as I walk these streets
and the ghost of your memory
is the thistle in the kiss
and the burgler that that can break a roses neck
it's the tattooed broken promise
that I hide beneath my sleeve
and I see you every time I turn my back
she sends me blue valentines
though I try to remain at large
they're insisting that our love
must have a culogy
why do I save all of this madness
in the nightstand drawer
there to haunt upon my shoulders
baby I know
I'd be luckier to walk around everywhere I go
with a blind and broken heart
that sleeps beneath my lapel
she sends me blue valentines
to remind me of my cardinal sin
I can never wash the guilt
or get these bloodstains off my hands
and it takes a lot of whiskey
to make these nightmares go away
and I cut my bleedin' heart out every nite
and I die a little more on each st. valentine day
remember that I promised I would
write you...
these blue valentines
blue valentines
blue valentines

it's raining it's pouring
and you didn't bring a sweater
nebraska'll never let you come back home
and on hollywood and vine
by the trifty mart sign
and night i'll be willin' to bet
there's a young girl
with sweet little wishes
and pretty blue dreams
standin' there and gettin' all wet
now there's a place off the drag
called the gilbert hotel
there's a couple letters burned out the sign
and it's better then a bus stop
and they do good business
every time it rains
for sweet little girls
with nothing in their jeans
but sweet little wishes
and pretty blue dreams
now it's raining it's pouring
the old man is snoring
now i lay me down to sleep
i hear the sirens in the street
all the dreams are made of chrome
i have no way to get back home
i'd rather die before i wake
like marilyn monroe
and throw my dreams out in
the street and the
rain will make em grow
now the night clerk he got a club foot
and he's heard times or more
he says check out time is 10 am
and that's just what he means
and you go up the stairs
with sweet little wishes
and pretty blue dreams
now it's raining it's pouring
and hollywoods just fine
swindle a little out of her dreams
put a letter in the sign
never trust a scarecrow
wearin' shades after dark
be areful of that old bow tie he wears
it takes asweet little bullet
from a pretty blue gun
to put those scarlet ribbons in your hair
no that ain't no cherry bomb
4th of july's all done
just some fool playin' that a second line
from the barrel of a pretty blue gun
no that ain't no cherry bomb
4th of july's all done
get some fool playin' that second line
from the barrel of a pretty blue gun.