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Something in the way she moves ( James Taylor )

There’s something in the way she moves Or looks my way, or calls my name That seems to leave this troubled world behind If I’m feeling down and blue Or troubled by some foolish game She always seems to make me change my mind And …

Somewhere over the rainbow (Israel - medley) ( Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Tommy Emmanuel, ... )

[] [] ohhh ohhh ohhh ohhh ohhh ohhh ohhh [] Somewhere over the rainbow way up high And the dreams that you dream of once in a lullaby [] Somewhere over the rainbow blue birds fly And the dreams that you dream of, dreams really …

Song to Woody ( Bob Dylan )

I'm out here a thousand miles from my home Walking a road other men have gone down I'm seeing your world of people and things Hear paupers and peasants and princes and kings. Hey hey Woody Guthrie I wrote you a song About a funny …

Southern Nights ( Glen Campbell )

Southern nights have you ever felt a southern night Free as a breeze not to mention the trees Whistling tunes that you know and love so Southern nights just as good even when closed your eyes I apologize to any one who can truly say …

Spancil hill ( The Dubliners )

Last night as I lay dreaming,of pleasant days gone by, My mind being bent on rambling,to Ireland I did fly, I stepped on board a vision,and followed with a will, Till the first I came to anchor at the cross at Spancil Hill, T'was on …

Speed of the sound of loneliness ( Nanci Griffith, John Prine )

[] [] You come home late and you come home early You come on big when you're feeling small You come home straight and you coe home curly Sometimes you don't come home at all. So what in the world's come over you And what …

Stewball ( Peter Paul and Mary, The Hollies )

Oh Stewball was a racehorse, and I wish he were mine. He never drank water, he always drank wine. His bridle was silver, his mane it was gold. And the worth of his saddle has never been told. Oh the fairgrounds were crowded, and Stewball …

Story Of A Broken Heart ( Johnny Cash, Sam Phillips )

Hmm the story of a broken heart Well the springtime is coming and the honeybees are humming And I just saw a Robin flying by While your wedding bells are ringing my poor heart is singing The story of a broken heart h-m-m-m The story …

Strange House ( Sin Fang )

[] [] I could've been a stone, Sink into the bottom of some ocean, I could have been your blood, I could have been your bones. My body is a strange house, The windows are black and I'm Locked out. [] [] Shalalala-lala Shalalala-lalala Shalalala-lala …

Streets of London ( Ralph McTell )

Have you seen the old man in the closed down market, Kicking up the papers with his worn out shoes? In his eyes you see no pride. Arms hang loosely at his side, Yesterday's papers telling yesterday's news. So how can you tell me you're …

Streets of London ( Ralph McTell )

Have you seen the old man By the closed down market Kicking up the papers with his worn out shoes In his eyes you'll see no pride Hand held loosely by his side Yesterday's paper, telling yesterday's news. So, how can you tell me that …

Stubborn Love ( The Lumineers )

[] [] She'll lie and steal and cheat, and beg you from her knees And make you thinks she means it this time She'll tear a hole in you, the one you can't repair But I still love her, I don't really care When we …

Sugar Man ( Sixto Rodriguez )

[] Sugar Man won't you hurry, [] cos I'm tired of these scenes For a blue coin won't you bring back [] all those colours to my dreams Silver magic ships you carry jumpers, coke, sweet 'mary jane' [] Sugar Man, met a false friend …

Summer Vibe ( Walk off the Earth )

EH-O, EH-O, EH-O BOP BOP AWAY-O Summer vibe, summer vibe I’m looking for a summer vibe Got me turning on the radio I gotta kick these blues Working all day Trying to make pay Wishing these clouds away I want to feel the sunshine Hit …

Sunny Road ( Emilíana Torrini )

[] Wrote you this, I hope you got it safe. It's been so long, I don't know what to say. I've traveled 'round, through deserts on my horse but jokes aside, I wannna come back home, You know that night, I said I had to …

Sunshine On My Shoulders ( John Denver )

If i had a day that i could give you I'd give to you a day just like today If i had a song that i could sing for you I'd sing a song to make you feel this way Sunshine on my shoulders makes …

Suzanne ( Leonard Cohen )

Suzanne takes you down To her place by the river, You can hear the boats go by, You can spend the night beside her, And you know that she's half crazy, But that's why you want to be there; And she feeds you tea and …

Sweet Baby James ( James Taylor )

There is a young cowboy he lives on the range. His horse and his cattle are his only companion. He works in the saddle and he sleeps in the canyon. Waiting for summer, his pastures to change. And as the moon rises he sits by …

Sweet Surrender ( John Denver )

Lost and alone on some forgotten highway Traveled by many remembered by few Looking for something that I can believe in Looking for something that I´d like to do with my life There´s nothing behind me and nothing that ties me To something that might …

Take me home country roads ( John Denver )

( for original key in A ) Almost heaven, West Virginia Blue ridge mountains, Shenandoah River. Life is old there, older than the trees, Younger than the mountains, growin' like a breeze. Country Roads take me home To the place I belong: West Virginia, mountain …

Tangled up in blue ( Bob Dylan )

Early one morning the sun was shining I was laying in bed Wondering if she'd changed at all If her hair was still red Her folks, they said our lives together Sure was gonna be rough They never did like mama's homemade dress Papa's bank …

Tennessee Flat Top Box ( Johnny Cash )

In a little cabaret in a South Texas border town Sat a boy and his guitar and the people came from all around And all the girls from there to Austin Were slipping way from home and putting jewelry in hock To take the trip …

Tennessee Homesick Blues ( Dolly Parton )

New York City ain't no kind of place For a country girl with a friendly face If you smile people look at you funny they take it wrong The greenest state in the land of the free And the home of the Grand Ole Opry …

Tennessee Stud ( Johnny Cash )

Back about eighteen and twenty-five I left Tennessee very much alive I never would've made it through the Arkansas mud If I hadn't been riding on the Tennessee Stud Had some trouble with my sweetheart's Pa One of her brothers was a bad outlaw I …

Thats All Over ( Johnny Cash )

Mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm When you left I shed a million teardrops over you But that's all over my crying days are through When you left my heart was cold and every day was blue But that's all over I've found somebody new …

The Balcony ( Rumour Said Fire )

So your mouth tastes like sunshine baby but your eyes are all cool buried in my arms And the breeze takes us deeper and further into the heart of the moment that is gone Da, da, da, da, da, da, da. Da, da, da, da, …

The Baptism Of Jesse Taylor ( Johnny Russell )

They baptized Jesse Taylor in Cedar Creek last Sunday Jesus gained a soul and Satan lost a good right arm They all cried hallelujah when Jesse's head went under Cause this time he went under for the Lord Among the local taverns there'll be a …

The Black Velvet Band ( The Dubliners )

Well, in a neat little town they call Belfast, apprentice to trade I was bound and many an hours sweet happiness, have I spent in that neat little town A sad misfortune came over me, which caused me to stray from the land Far away …

The Boxer ( Simon and Garfunkel )

I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises. All lies and jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest, hmmmm When I left …

The cave ( Mumford & Sons )

It's empty in the valley of your heart The sun, it rises slowly as you walk Away from all the fears and all the faults you've left behind The harvest left no food for you to eat You cannibal, you meat-eater, you see But I …

The Dangling Conversation ( Simon & Garfunkel )

It's a still life water color Of a now late afternoon As the sun shines through the curtain lace And shadows wash the room And we sit and drink our coffee Cast in our indifference, like shells upon the shore You can hear the ocean …

The Fields of Athenry ( Paddy Reilly, The Dubliners, ... )

By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young girl calling Michael they have taken you away, For you stole Trevelyan's corn So the young might see the morn, Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay. Low lie, The Fields of Athenry where …

The Last Ride ( Hank Snow )

In the Dodge City yards of the Sante Fe Stood a freight made up for the east And the engineer with his oil and waste Was grooming the great iron beast While ten cars back in the murky dust A boxcar door swung wide And …

The Leading Bird ( Marketa Irglova )

[] Clouds descend on grass grown wild Tall and grand, lush in hand They bend in air as man in prayer I'm weaving through, trying to get to you I'm running past birds of dawn They sing like heaven, they're leading on Yet I don't …

The Lollipop Tree ( Burl Ives, The Limeliters )

One fine day in early spring, I played a funny trick Right in the yard behind our house, I planted a lollipop stick And everyday I watered it well and watched it carefully I hoped one day that stick would grow to be a lollipop …

The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll ( Bob Dylan )

William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll With a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger At a Baltimore hotel society gath'rin'. And the cops was called in and his weapon took from him As they rode him in custody down to the station …

The Man in Me ( Bob Dylan )

The man in me will do nearly any task, And as for compensation, there's little he would ask. Take a woman like you To get through to the man in me. Storm clouds are raging all around my door, I think to myself I might …

The Needle And The Damage Done ( Neil Young )

I caught you knocking at my cellar door, I love you, baby, can I have some more? Oh the damage done. I hit the city and I lost my band, I watched the needle take another man, Gone, gone, the damage done. I sing the …

The Night Hank Williams Came To Town ( Johnny Cash )

Harry Truman was our president A coke and burger cost you thirty cents I was still in love with Mavis Brown On the night Hank Williams came to town I Love Lucy debuted on TV That was one big event we didn't see Cause no …

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down ( The Band )

Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train, 'Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again. In the winter of '65, We were hungry, just barely alive. By May the tenth, Richmond had fell, it's a time I remember, …

The Night We Met ( Lord Huron )

oooo oooo ooooo oooo oooo oooo oooo oooo oooo oooo oooo oooo I am not the only traveler Who has not repaid his debt I've been searching for a trail to follow again Take me back to the night we met And then I can …

The Pirate's Gospel ( Alela Diane )

Grip your paddle strong for late night fording While some folks row way up to heaven I'm gonna sing the Pirate's Gospel I'm gonna sew these feet for dancin' I'm gonna keep my eyes wide open Oh, oh, oh. Hum hum, hum hum, hum hum …

There Stands The Glass ( Webb Pierce )

There stands the glass That will ease all my pain That will settle my brain It's my first one today There stands the glass That will hide all my tears That will drown all my fears Brother I'm on my way I'm wondering where you …

These Dreams ( Jim Croce )

Once we were lovers, But somehow things have changed. Now we're just lonely people Tryin' to forget each others' names. Now we're just lonely people Tryin' to forget each others' names. What came between us? Maybe we were just too young to know. But now …

These Things Shall Pass ( Johnny Cash )

These things shall pass and some great morning We'll look back and smile at heartaches we have known So don't forget when shadows gather The Lord our God is still the King upon His throne A rose looks gray at midnight but the flame is …

The Sick Note ( The Dubliners )

Dear sir I write this note to you to inform you of me plight, And at the time of writing, I am not a pretty sight. Me body is all black and blue, me face a deathly gray. And I write this note to tell …

The Sins of Memphisto ( John Prine )

[] From the bells of St Mary To the Count of Monte Cristo Nothing can stop, nothing can stop Nothin can stop the sins, of Memphisto [] Sally used to play with her hula hoops Now she tells her problems to therapy groups Grampa's on …

The Sound of Silence ( Simon and Garfunkel )

[] Hello darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you again. [] Because a vision softly creeping Left it's seed while I was sleeping, And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains [] Within the sounds of silence. [] In …

The Story ( Brandi Carlile )

All of these lines across my face tell you the story of who I am So many stories of where I've been, and now I got to where I am But these stories don't mean anything, when you've got no one to tell them to …

The times they are a-changing ( Bob Dylan )

Come gather 'round people wherever you roam And admit that the waters around you have grown, And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone, If your time to you is worth saving. Then you'd better start swimming or you'll sink like a …