Southbound
By dickey betts
(c) 1973 & 1974 no exit music co., inc.
Well Im southbound, lord Im comin home to you.
Well Im southbound, baby, lord Im comin home to you.
I got that old lonesome feelin thats sometimes called the blues.
Well I been workin every night, travelin every day.
Yes I been workin every night, traveling every day.
You can tell your other man, sweet daddys on his way.
Aww, ya better believe.
Well Im southbound.
Whoa Im southbound.
Well you can tell your other man, sweet daddys on his way.
(guitar solo)
Got your hands full now baby, as soon as I hit that door.
Youll have your hands full now woman, just as soon as I hit that door.
Well Im gonna make it on up to you for all the things you should have
Had before.
Lord, Im southbound.
Yes Im southbound.
Whoa Im southbound, baby.
Said Im southbound.
Well Im gonna make it on up to you for all the things you should
Have had before.
(piano solo)
(guitar solo)
song performed by by Allman Brothers Band
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Southbound Again
Southbound again I dont know if Im going or leaving home
Boy got to be moving
Seems like the boy is bound to roam
Southbound again got no money Ive got no place to go
That womans with her lover boy
Never want to see her face no more
Every single time I roll across the rolling river tyne
I get the same old feeling
Every time Im moving down the line
Southbound again last night I felt like crying
Right now Im sick of living
But Im going to keep on trying
song performed by by Dire Straits
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Across The Border
Ive been workin so hard, baby,
Tryin to get to you.
Im gonna be there soon because
In the heat of the day many miles away
When the sun is beating down upon the main street
Ill be waiting here at the station,
I gotta move down the line.
Theyll be dancin and singin and doin their thing
And theyll be rockin and rollin until the day is done.
You know I got to make the deadline.
I gotta get that southbound train tonight, ooh.
If I dont get to the border then Ill write.
The mardi gras will be blowing strong
And the people dancing all across the city.
Im leaving here tonight,
I gotta move down the line.
Im gonna catch a ride on the nine-o-five,
Im gonna ride the rail until we reach the morning,
Maybe three or four hundred miles.
I gotta get that southbound train tonight, ooh.
If I dont get to the border then Ill write.
When the wind is blowing softly
Through the streets of a little town and the musics playin
Youre waiting somewhere over the horizon.
I gotta get that southbound train tonight, ooh.
If I dont get to the border then Ill write.
song performed by by Electric Light Orchestra
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Southbound Train
Well she was born in a north woods town
Twenty-one winters ago
And she grew tired of the freezing cold
And living in the blinding snow
But this girl knew she wouldn't be there long
'Cause she had plans and dreams
And she'd seen pictures of the sunshine state
In the pages of the magazine
So she waited them tables and she used her smile
Saving every penny she can
For a one-way Dixie bound Amtrak ticket
Headed for the promised land
Her momma and daddy begged her not to go
When the day she dreamed of came
And she waved goodbye sittin' way up high
From the window of a southbound train
Now she's got a fire burnin' deep inside
Ridin' on a southbound train
And the clickity-clack of that railroad track
Only helps to fan the flames
No more worries, no more cares
She left them up in Bangor, Maine
Now she's startin' a brand new life
Ridin' on a southbound train
Whoa...
She said, 'Hello sun, good mornin' Daytona
You're sure lookin' good to me
With your ocean breeze and your tall palm trees
And your southern hospitality'
Now she's a knockout queenie in a string bikini
She's drivin' all the boys insane
And this all started with a small town dream
And a ticket on a southbound train
'Cause she had a fire burnin' deep inside
Ridin' on a southbound train
And the clickity-clack of that railroad track
Only helps to fan the flames
No more worries, no more cares
She left them up in Bangor, Maine
Yeah she likes the boys with the southern drawl
Soakin' up the sunshine, havin' a ball
She'll be the first to tell you that she owes it all
To ridin' on a southbound train
Whoa...oh...
song performed by by Travis Tritt
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Greenwood Creek
Tom johnston
Smell the fragrance of the old pine tree
See the woman, shes down on her knees
She own some land, and a good crop she seeks
Down along the banks of greenwood creek
I can hear that southbound rollin
Carryin all my hopes away
Im strapped to my mule at the old country school
When Im gonna get out, I cant say
Played guitar for ten long years
My only pay was the hound dogs cheers
Someday Im gonna get me some land
Far away in that promised land
I can hear that southbound rollin
Carryin all my hopes away
Im strapped to my mule at the old country school
When Im gonna get out, I cant say
song performed by by Doobie Brothers
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Southbound Pachyderm
Quite a suprise
What an ingenious device
Boredom encompasses my time
I dont know what I should do
Indulging a moment of your time
Seldom the breeder of lies
But you wont believe that its true
They take to the sky
Southbound pachyderm
Pinholes through cardboard
At the sun
Passing the bucks by one by one
Leaving nothing in return
Watching the majest blow past
Speculating which will be the last
Savoring my piece of pie
And there is no reprise
Theyre filling the sky
Southbound pachyderm
song performed by by Primus
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Broken Dreams
Have you ever had your dreams broken?
It really messes up your heart
You want to stop right there
And go right back to the start
You got to leave the town you're living in
Oh i'm leaving, i'm leaving on the next train
My dreams have been broken
I don't think i'll ever be the same
It's a bad, bad feeling when all the things
That you've worked for just don't seem to turn out right
Well this happened to me last night
I woke up this morning and said i must be going
You see my dreams have been broken
I don't think i have
The strength to carry on
So i'll catch the next train southbound
I don't want no pity
Not from you or anyone
It's just my dreams been broken
And i got to tell someone before i go crazy
I'll be leaving
I'll be leaving
On that next train going southbound
Yes, i'll be leaving on that next train
You see my dreams been broken
And i just can't
Take the pain
I've got to move on
You see my dreams been broken
And i don't have
The strength
To carry on
song performed by by Thin Lizzy
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Broken Dreams
Have you ever had your dreams broken?
It really messes up your heart
You want to stop right there
And go right back to the start
You got to leave the town you're living in
Oh i'm leaving, i'm leaving on the next train
My dreams have been broken
I don't think i'll ever be the same
It's a bad, bad feeling when all the things
That you've worked for just don't seem to turn out right
Well this happened to me last night
I woke up this morning and said i must be going
You see my dreams have been broken
I don't think i have
The strength to carry on
So i'll catch the next train southbound
I don't want no pity
Not from you or anyone
It's just my dreams been broken
And i got to tell someone before i go crazy
I'll be leaving
I'll be leaving
On that next train going southbound
Yes, i'll be leaving on that next train
You see my dreams been broken
And i just can't
Take the pain
I've got to move on
You see my dreams been broken
And i don't have
The strength
To carry on
song performed by by Thin Lizzy
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Southbound
The boom time it is over
A ghost town is all thats left here
The gold rush it is over
And depression days draw near
Tonight after sundown
Im going to pack my case
I leave without a sound
Disappear without a trace
Im going southbound
Drifting like a drover
Chasing my career
From the ships docked in the harbour
New horizons will appear
Tumbling with the tumbleweed
Down the open road
Taking only what I need
Before my head explodes
Im going southbound
Hey, youre not getting any younger
The wild west has already been won
Northern lights are growing colder
And the old eastern ways are gone
So tonight after sundown
You must go from this place
Without a tear, without a frown
Disappear without a trace
song performed by by Thin Lizzy
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Southbound
The boom time it is over
A ghost town is all thats left here
The gold rush it is over
And depression days draw near
Tonight after sundown
Im going to pack my case
I leave without a sound
Disappear without a trace
Im going southbound
Drifting like a drover
Chasing my career
From the ships docked in the harbour
New horizons will appear
Tumbling with the tumbleweed
Down the open road
Taking only what I need
Before my head explodes
Im going southbound
Hey, youre not getting any younger
The wild west has already been won
Northern lights are growing colder
And the old eastern ways are gone
So tonight after sundown
You must go from this place
Without a tear, without a frown
Disappear without a trace
song performed by by Thin Lizzy
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Gonna Get Back Home Somehow
(words & music by doc pomus - mort shuman)
Hear that old train whistle
Howling in the night
If that flyers southbound
Everything will be all right
Im leaving now, leaving now, leaving now,
Im gonna get back home somehow
Dont nobody tell me
Babys been untrue
If shes been unfaithful
I dont know what Ill do
Im leaving now, leaving now, leaving now
Im gonna get back home somehow
Never thought that I could miss her so
I never thought I could , now I know
The sound of the old train whistle
Makes me want to cry
Reminds me of that lonely feeling
When I said goodbye
Im leaving now, leaving now, leaving now
Im gonna get back home somehow
song performed by by Elvis Presley
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Southbound
Chad Villella, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Kristina Pesic, Fabianne Therese, Nathalie Love, Hannah Marks, Dana Gould, Anessa Ramsey, Susan Burke
from Southbound (2015)
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Southbound Jericho Parkway
Bobby bond
There was a man whose memories were made up,
Of nothing.
He pushed the elevator button, and go home,
To nothing.
Yes his business had prospered but women get lonely sometimes, now she has the house
His son in college had dropped out,
To expand his mind.
And sarah, his daughter had not spoken to him.
Maybe hed raised her the wrong way.
He wondered.
He checked his mailbox, with fingers a-tremblin
No mail, from anyone.
Im home he said softly, as he opened the door
And gazed at his empty apartment.
Aching, thinking.
Southbound jericho parkway
Is what you call a one-way street.
Southbound jericho parkway
Is what you call a one-way street.
At 7.20, monday after new year,
Mister henry johnson leaned against the pedal
Aimed his lincoln steady and drove himself into a wall.
How could a thing sush as this ever happen.
All the community said it was shame.
He was a good man,he was a clean man yeah,
Thats what he was a good and clean man
And his landlady said he was an exemplary tenant.
Theyre always nice and quiet when theyre all alone
At his age.
The young man sat, on a small woven mat.
While the silken smoke it cirlcled over head.
The cigarettes were there to prove he didnt care
bout the contents of the telegram hed just read.
Father, father, father.
You always seemed to be so out of reach.
And the psychedelyc sign read: peace.
Apartment in new york, a girl closes the door,
And leans against it with her head bowed low.
Thoughts raced through her mind
Of when she was a child.
Raised warmly by a man she didnt know.
Father, father, father.
She wished she had phoned him yesterday
There were so many things she had to say
Henry, the check is in my hands
Brought by the insurance man to cover all my plans
Well have flowers, your broker will be there
And sarah, if she cares, and our boy with all his hair
And the sun rose,and the sunset
As it always has,
And people yet unknown, were busy being born,
And time when past.
song performed by by Roy Orbison
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Sweet Melinda
This song was first released on the john denver album. it is the only album it has been released on.
Pulled out of linden, texas
Two days and nights ago
Ive been livin on pills and burgies
Till the whites of my eyes dont show
Southbound headlights are makin me blind
Im too damn tired to blink
My toes are numb and my brains gone numb
And I can just barely think
Sweet melinda, my wife
The lonesome moan of this eighteen wheeler
Cuts through me like a knife
cept for you, sweet melinda, my wife
I been ridin on empty
Most all of my life
Two more hours of daylight
Its startin to rain again
A sign up ahead says welcome to paradise
Population ten
Well me and this truck and that old white line
Stumblin on and on
Like three old drinkin buddies
Comin home at dawn
song performed by by John Denver
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Detroit City
You know last night I went to sleep in detroit city
And I dreamed about those cotton fields and home
I dreamed about my mother, dear old papa, sisters and brothers
And I dreamed about a love whos been waiting there so long
I want to go home
I want to go home
Oh how I want to go home
My kinfolks think Im big in detraoit city
From all the letters that I write, they think Im fine
By day I make the cars
But, by night I make all the bars
Oh if only theys just read between the lines
Theyd know I want to go home
I want to go home
Oh how I want to go home
You know I rode a freight train north to detroit city
And after all these years I find Ive been wasting my time
Think Ill put my foolish pride on a southbound train and ride
Heading back to the loved ones I left there waiting behind
Repeat chorus
song performed by by Dolly Parton
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Big Daddy
She had such tiny tears
Just like a barbie doll
She likes to shop at sears
And visit shopping malls
Now shes a big mamma
Tell poppa
Cry, cry, cry, cry
Old money
Your old money doesnt matter now
Have mercy
Mercy, mercy, daddys going fishing now
He put the bait onto his line
Hes winding out his reel
Fish are swimming in the pond
Gonna let em sail away
Hes got his eye on you
He knows just what she wants
The fish is gonna bite
She is his latest catch
cause hes big daddy
Oh, mammy
Cry, cry, cry, cry
Big daddy
Oh, daddys scraping bottom now
Oh, momma
Daddy, daddy, daddy does the talking now
Mesmerized like horny toads
By shiny things like jewels and gold
Throwing all their pearls to swing
Let em sail away
You lucky dog
Youll be on easy street
Drinking champagne
She gets all that she wants
His hearts desire
No more worries anymore
Like a fairy tale
Anything that she likes
I seen you do the dog
I seen you getting down
A swimming back and forth
When daddys not around
Big daddy
Oh, shes pretty as a picture now
Oh, momma
Oh, what a little martyr now
He knows how to drive em wild
One day youd think shed see
Saying this is mine and this is her.
Now take that stuff away
Its best left unspoken
One and one is two
The velvet lies sing softly
Each with a golden spoon
And she passed her time in the wind and the rain
Got a one way ticket on a southbound train
Said baby, baby, wants to have a good time
And big daddy laughed
And big daddy smiled
Like dynamite
One fine day shell explode
Whos laughing now?
No one sees anymore
Sneak in and out
Dont get caught running round
Swim back and forth
Bubbles float to the top
song performed by by Talking Heads
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Distance
distance is good sometimes
i remember standing on top of the hill
fog covers me
and yet i still see
the burning house on the plains
remember the two pillars of Khayyam
how they make a house that strong
to hold a world above a roof
of lime and beams?
we keep the reasons
of distances
to make ourselves closer
than the sea to its shore
so from here i am northbound
southbound please write me a letter.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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When I'm 64
When I get home
Whoa-ho, whoa-ho,
I got a whole lot of things to tell her,
when I get home.
Come on, out of my way,
'cos I'm gonna see my baby today,
I've got a whole lot of things I've gotta say
to her.
Whoa-ho, whoa-ho,
I got a whole lot of things to tell her,
when I get home.
Come on if you please,
I've got no time for trivialities,
I've got a girl who's waiting home for me tonight.
Whoa-ho, whoa-ho,
I got a whole lot of things to tell her,
when I get home.
When I'm getting home tonight, I'm gonna
hold her tight.
I'm gonna love her till the cows come home,
I bet I'll love her more,
till I walk out that door
again.
Come on, let me through,
I've got so many things, I've got to do,
I've got no business being here with you
this way.
Whoa-ho, whoa-ho,
I've got a whole lot of things to tell her
when I get home - yeah.
song performed by by Beatles
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When I Get Home
Whoa-ho, whoa-ho,
I got a whole lot of things to tell her,
When i get home.
Come on, out of my way,
'cause i'm gonna see my baby today,
I've got a whole lot of things i've gotta say
To her.
Whoa-ho, whoa-ho,
I got a whole lot of things to tell her,
When i get home.
Come on if you please,
I've got no time for trivialities,
I've got a girl who's waiting home for me tonight.
Whoa-ho, whoa-ho,
I got a whole lot of things to tell her,
When i get home.
When i'm getting home tonight, i'm gonna
Hold her tight.
I'm gonna love her till the cows come home,
I bet i'll love her more,
Till i walk out that door
Again.
Come on, let me through,
I've got so many things, i've got to do,
I've got no business being here with you
This way.
Whoa-ho, whoa-ho,
I've got a whole lot of things to tell her
When i get home - yeah.
song performed by by Beatles
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Here Come The Blues
Monday is shining
You know em tuesdays rain
Well, the days go by me
Like a southbound train
Yes, its funny thinking
You will never call my name
Here comes long lonely
Here comes the blues
Well, the worlds the same old comedy
You know my time is cold
Nothing new, blue lady
I wont get old
cause the deal is gone now
Id just better hold
Here comes long lonely
Here comes the blues
Well, sun has run down
She has gone out to hide
Yes, and now Im out walking
Where the midnight ride
Just me and the good-time charlies
And the suicide
Here comes long lonely
Here comes the blues
Well, mondays dry
Yes, and tuesdays just the same
Maybe come down blue wednesday
Im gonna grab the brakes again
cause no bottle of pills
Could ever kill this pain
Here comes long lonely
Here comes the blues
Here comes long lonely
Here comes the blues
song performed by by Nick Drake
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Come & Go Blues
Come and go blues
By gregg allman
(c) 1973 & 1974 by no exit music co. inc. & allbros music co.
People say that youre no good,
But I wouldnt cut you loose, baby, if I could.
Well, I seem to stay down on the ground,
Baby, Im too far gone to turn around.
Oh, if only you would make up your mind,
Take me where you go, youre leaving me behind.
Lord, you got those come and go blues,
Lord, you got those some and go blues,
Yes, you do, oh and you got me feelin like a fool.
round n round, round we go, -
Dont ask me why I stay here, I dont know.
Well maybe Im a fool to care,
Without your sweet love, baby I would be nowhere.
Here Ill stay, locked in your web,
Till that day I might find somebody else.
I dont know just when that would be,
I dont know, I cant say as I cant see.
Lord you got me feeling like a fool.
Sail on, darlin, sail on
Woman, you go your way, and Ill go mine
Seems to me, that I once heard
That everything is finally cured by time
So sail on, darlin, sail on
Lord, I wish you good luck
And Ill see you when you come next time.
Woman, you got those come and go blues
Yeah, you got those come and go blues,
Yes, you do, oh and you got me feelin like a fool.
song performed by by Allman Brothers Band
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