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Song Sung Blue ( Neil Diamond )

Song sung blue Everybody knows one Song sung blue Every garden grows one Me and you are subject to the blues now and then But when you take the blues and make a song You sing them out again Sing them out again Song sung …

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 …

Soon We'll Be Found ( Sia )

Come along, it is the break of day Surely now, you'll have some things to say It's not the time for telling tales on me, So come along, it won’t be long ‘till we return happy Shut your eyes, there are no lies in this …

Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word ( Elton John )

[] [] What have I got to do to make you love me What have I got to do to make you care [] What do I do when lightning strikes me And I wake to find that you're not there [] What do I …

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 …

Stay ( Sara Bareilles )

Saturday, Empty room Filled with people Don't mean a thing You and I Holding hands Nobody knows Nobody understands I don't care for sunlight It only means it's over I'm in no mood for that Stay tonight Don't come morning Don't come light They may …

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 …

Stolen Moments ( Hank Snow )

Stolen moments are all we have together Two hearts that must find love on borrowed time Stolen moments the seconds that we treasure Must this forbidden pleasure be a crime If only we had met when both of us were free We could walk into …

Stones ( Neil Diamond )

Stones would play inside her head And where she slept, They made her bed And she would ache for love and get but stones La la la la la la la la la Lordy, child A good day's coming And I'll be there to let …

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 …

Strawberry Wine ( Ryan Adams )

Last night the street collapsed on itself In fact, it broke right in two And I fell in The strawberry vines Into a pool of strawberry wine Strawberry wine and clouds Burning in the desert, surrounded in flowers But the stems break the armor And …

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 …

Streets of Philadelphia ( Bruce Springsteen )

[] I was bruised and battered, I couldn't tell what I felt I was unrecognizable to myself Saw my reflection in a window and didn't know my own face Oh brother, are you gonna leave me wasting away on the streets of Philadelphia [] [] …

Stuck Inside A Cloud ( George Harrison )

Never slept so little Never smoked so much Lost my concentration, I could even lose my touch Talking to myself Crying out loud Only I can hear me I'm stuck inside a cloud I made some exhibition I lost my will to eat The only …

Stupid Boy ( Keith Urban )

[] Well, she was precious like a flower She grew wild, wild but innocent A perfect prayer in a desperate hour She was everything beautiful and different Stupid boy, you can't fence that in Stupid boy, it's like holding back the wind she let her …

Suffer In Silence ( Willie Nelson )

I think I should speak to you stranger Your problem is clear now to me You think that the whole world's against you And you tell everyone that you see Just suffer in silence speak no bitter words The world offers no sympathy Though trouble …

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 …

Sunday Sun ( Beck )

Haven't got a lot to learn And my eyes they stray again Looking for a satellite In the rays of heaven again There's no other ending Sunday sun Yesterday is ending Sunday sun Jealous minds walk in a line And their faces jade the strain …

Sunrise ( Norah Jones )

[] [] [] Sunrise, sunrise Looks like mornin' in your eyes But the clocks held 9:15 for hours Sunrise, sunrise Couldn't tempt us if it tried 'Cause the afternoon's already come and gone And I said hoo… Hoo hoo hoo… Hoo hoo hoo... To you …

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 …

Superhero ( Stephen Lynch )

If I could be a superhero I would be awesome man I'd fly around the world fighting crime According to my awesome plan And if I saw criminals trying to lie Hurting other people and making them cry I'd haul them off to jail in …

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 Caroline ( Neil Diamond, Elvis Presley )

[] Where it began I can't begin to knowin' But then I know it's growin' strong Was in the spring And spring became a summer Who'd have believed you'd come along Hands, touchin' hands Reachin' out Touchin' me Touchin' you Sweet Caroline Good times never …

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 …

Talk to me ( Stephen Lynch )

I came down to the breakfast table, felt like I could cry I tried so hard but wasn't able to look you in the eye For I am feeling so much shame, yes I have brought disgrace Can tell I've soiled my good name by …

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 …

Tea and Toast ( Lucy Spraggan )

Tom was born in nineteen forty two. With eyes of blue And the doctors said that his birth was far too fast His heart stopped twice But yet he survived As he took his first breathe His mother took her last And his father knew …

Tears and rain ( James Blunt )

how i wish i could surrender my soul shed the clothes that become my skin see the liar that burns within my needing how i wish i had chosen darkness from cold how i wish i could scream out load instead ive found no meaning …

Telephone Call from Istanbul ( Tom Waits )

All night long on the broken glass Living in a medicine chest Mediteromainian hotel back Sprawled across a roll top desk. The monkey rode the blade on an overhead fan They paint the donkey blue if you pay I got a telephone call from Istanbul... …

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 …

Thanks A Lot ( Ernest Tubb )

Thanks thanks a lot I got a broken heart that's all I got You made me cry and I cried a lot I lost your love honey thanks a lot You told our friends I was passing by That you're not sorry that you made …

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 Boy Who Giggled So Sweet ( Emilíana Torrini )

He came with the breeze She told everyone, in the cold She would hold him and sing a song, Sweet little Anna, singing her sad, sad song, To her beautiful boy that giggled so sweet. The days went by until one little night, with this …

The circus left town ( Eric Clapton )

Little man with his eyes on fire And his smile so bright In his hands are the toys you gave That fill his heart with delight In a ring stands a circus clown Holding up a light What you see and what you hear Will …

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 Folks Who Live On The Hill ( Sammy Davis Jr., Bing Crosby, ... )

Someday, We'll build a home on a hilltop high, you and I, Shiny and new, a cottage that two can fill; And we'll be pleased to be called The folks who live on the hill. Someday, we may be adding a wing or two, a …

The Free Electric Band ( Albert Hammond )

My father is a doctor, he's a family man My mother works for charity when ever she can They're both good clean Americans who abide by the law They both stick up for liberty and they both support the war. My happiness was paid for …

The Games People Play ( Joe South )

Oh the games people play now every night and every day now Never meaning what they say now never saying what they mean And they wile away the hours in their ivory towers Till they're covered up with flowers in the back of a black …

The Golden Age ( Beck )

Put your hands on the wheel Let the golden age begin Let the window down Feel the moonlight on your skin Let the desert wind Cool your aching head let the weight of the world Drift away instead Oh These days I barely get by …

The Heart of Saturday Night ( Tom Waits )

Well, you gassed her up behind the wheel With your arm around your sweet one In your Oldsmobile Hailing down the Boulevard You're looking for the heart of Saturday night And you got paid on Friday And your pockets are jinglin' And you then see …

The Hill ( Marketa Irglova )

Walking up the hill tonight and you have closed your eyes I wish I didn't have to make all those mistakes and be wise Please try to be patient and know that I'm still learning I'm sorry that you have to see the strength inside …

The Little Lady Preacher ( Tom T. Hall )

Oh the little lady preacher from the Limestone Church I'll never forget her I guess She preached each Sunday morning on the local radio With a big black Bible and a snow white dress She was nineteen years of age and was developed to a …

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 man with the child in his eyes ( Kate Bush )

[]I hear him, before I go to sleep, And focus on the day that's been, I realise he's there, When I turn the light off, and turn over Nobody knows about my man, [] They think he's lost on some horizon, [] And, suddenly, I …

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 Old Account ( Johnny Cash )

Well it was a time on earth when in the books of heaven An old account was standing for sins yet unforgiven My name was at the top and many things below But I went unto the keeper and settled it long ago Long ago …