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Before The morning come
04:12
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Sitting by the water, down by the sea
Evening sunset sinking low , wishing I could be
As free as a bird’s wing , flying so high
Over the Ocean, I don’t ever want to die
For as black as the night hour, still water’s run deep
Under the cover’s of these secrets I keep
Letter’s I’ve written and candles I’ve burnt
Searching high and low for love’s sweetest song
All around the world ,
And I’m always trying to catch the sun
Before the morning come
Standing on the corner, heard street sirens wail
Silence is broken and those shadows they pale
Sister won’t you have mercy, for I don’t feel so strong
Say the time is coming soon, well I hope it won’t be long
For its hard to keep on believing, when I don’t see no trace
Oh I know I seen the light that burns so bright
But I ain’t never seen your face
Hearts they have been broken and bridges I have burned
Searching high and low for love’s sweetest song
All around the world ,
And I’m always trying to catch the sun
Before the morning come
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Father's Son
03:19
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FATHER’S SON
Always happens when the sun goes down
On the streets of my old home town
Certain feeling always gets you down
Something in the air tonight
Its as if I could only change my face
Walk away forever leave this place
Getting harder just to be someone
We all want to change the world
But there must be more to life than this
Always searching for some long lost kiss
Dreaming dreams there’ll be days like this
Guess we’re never really free
And there’s nowhere left that I can hide
Though this world is oh so big and wide
For after all when all is said and done
I guess I’ll always be my father’s son
And you know how it is when you’ve got the blues
Looking down at those same old shoes
Walking streets that you know by now
Thinking nothing gonna change
Just when you feel like you give up on love
Say ah to hell there’s no God up above
Sick and tired of all the games you play
Well the day is gonna come
For there’s wind of change that’s blowing thru’
Something strong yeah and something new
Something deep singing way down low
Felling like a child again
For it don’t really matter where I go
Two certain things that I will always know
After all when all is said and done
I guess I ‘ll always be my Father’s Son
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Liberty Falls
05:31
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Bustop Musgo he takes flight
as the neon lights the night
Heading down to Liberty Falls
Where old Graceland come and go
And ole Glory’s mighty flow
Somewhere there’s a siren singing
Buddy’s on the radio
He paints a picture steals the show
On that endless Southern Highway
every small town looks the same
And he remembers every frame
On the Road to Liberty Falls
Midnight Bustop’s got the blues
He’s got nothing left to lose
Leave’s his baggage in the corner
Day and night to pass the time
He’s always standing first in line
24 hours until tomorrow
Sits and read’s the weekly news
So tired he kicks off both his shoes
In some downtown sleazy Diner
Coffee cups they leave a stain
And all those memories remain
On the Road to Liberty Falls
Journey’s end brings on the dawn
Bustop’s rising early morn
Sun is shining down on Main Street
Drinks a drink down at the bar
He’s come so near and yet so far
No way out until tomorrow
No one’s heard of no such town
He’s out of luck and the bridge is down
On the road to Liberty Falls
Every street is paved in Gold
His dreams like shadows they run cold
On the road to Liberty Falls
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Brother Can You Help Me
03:48
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I was younger than the mountain
And much older than the tree
I was leaping from the Ocean
When you crawled out from the sea
I was ancient when you learnt
To light the fire and work the ground
I had a million years of History
Before you began to hunt me down
Brother Can you help me
For I know you hear my song
I’m sad and I am weary
I don’t know what I done wrong
For you hunt me and you kill me
And there’s nowhere left to run
Ah Brother can you help me
For there’ll be silence when I’m gone
I was there when Jesus walked upon
The sea of Galilee
And when Rome it burned ah the earth still turned
I swam wild and I was free
I was innocent and wild eyed
When you set foot on Virginia’s shore
And I laughed and cried as so many died
In your endless crazy wars
Brother Can you help me
For I know you hear my song
I’m sad and I am weary
I don’t know what I done wrong
For you hunt me and you kill me
And there’s nowhere left to run
Ah Brother can you help me
For there’ll be silence when I’m gone
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Travelling Man
03:21
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TRAVELLING MAN
Came upon a child of God
She was walking down the road
Said she knew my face
and he could help me with my load
For the path you tread is lonely
Come and join our happy band
For I know the Road ain’ t easy
bit I’m a freeborn travellin man
Came upon a down and out
So drunk he could not see
Said son this is the life I tell you
Just the bottle you and me
Well a drink’s a drink but I can’t think
When my head is always canned
So I’m on the road pack up my load
I’m a freeborn Travelling man
Met the son of satan and
he bartered for my soul
Offered all the riches in the world
All the wealth that I could hold
Well I’m a faithless disbeliever
but I don’t need the devil’s hand
I have all I need and I have my creed
I’m a freeborn travelling man
Met a girl the sweetest heart
Her soul it was divine
Swore on all thats holy then
and there that she’d be mine
But the path to love ‘s not straight and true
And I never held her hand
So I’m on the road pack up my load
I’m a freeborn travellin’man I tell you
I’m a freeborn travellin’ man
I’ve walked with many tribes of man
I’ve travelled all alone
In search of truth and justice
But I never found no home
I have wandered through the wilderness
Followed footsteps in the sand
But I never found no common ground
I’m a freeborn travellin’ man I tell you
I’m a freeborn travellin’ man
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Back to the land
05:12
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Jake he was a dreamer , rootless wandering free
Living in the city , lost touch with reality
He’s been sanitized and hypnotised by some kind of insanity
For that’s what it is to be man in the twentieth century
But Katie she’s much stronger, more rooted like a tree
Lays calm on troubled water , like oil upon the sea
And she’s carrying their first born, earth mother to be
Know’s what it is to live and survive , to raise a family
And they’re working for tomorrow , and living for the day
When they’ll travel back to their home town, somewhere on the way
On the journey from the present , to the future they have planned
Its a long , long road back to the land
Jake he was a schemer, so blind he could not see
All the beauty that so surrounds him now , life’s sweet little mystery
Born and raised in steeltown though he’s flesh and blood and bone
He never feel’s the passing of time for he’s far too far from home
But Katie she’s the union , of woman man and soil
Knows what it is to die , to work hard and to toil
For her family they were farmers , in touch with every sign
The seasons as they come and go , the onward march of time
And they’re leaving for the country , heading back home to the land
With faith in what tomorrow brings , and salvation in their hands
On the journey from the present to the future they have planned
Its along , long road back to the land
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Sea of changes
03:28
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SEA OF CHANGES
Kicking over the traces like a rolling stone
Thinking back yeah way back home
Remembering days when I was younger and
Life was simple and I could understand
To much heartache and not enough love
All this world is just a push and shove
And I’ll keep holding back the tide
In a sea of changes
Walking down amongst the rocks and stones
Kicking over the same old bones
People and places all this constant change
Try so hard just to stay this way
Too many people and too little time
Hard enough to make ends meet I find
And I’ll keep holding back the tide
In a sea of changes
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8. |
Hey Joe
05:58
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Hey Joe don’t you know
There’s a world outside your window
Pane it breaks your heart like glass
we sit and we don’t talk
And if I could reach you I would walk
A million miles to find my way
For we think we’re born to live forever
It’s easy when you’ re young and strong
Your eyes are bright but now your older so it seems
In the evening of your song Hey Joe
Hey Joe don’t you go
Leaving things unsaid and done
Your silence is the perfect crime
I sit with my head in hands
You don’t seem to understand
The fear that built this wall so high
For I’ve been down and I’ve been searching
High and low for oh so long
I hope one day I’ll find the answer to your prayer
Every time I sing your song
Hey Joe look at the sun
Think about everything you have done
Don’t it make you laugh and smile
Your son my daddy’s gone
Breaks my heart to see you
Now my Mother and my sister Cry
But I’ll sing out for the love of Ivy
And I will carve her name in stone
Upon that hill above the small town by the sea
And I will carry you back home
Hey Joe every time I sing your song
Hey Joe look at the sky
Don’t it make you wonder why
We’re born into this world of dreams
God know how you feel
you can never tell me
I can never clearly see
Through Father’s father’s eyes
and I hope you find your road to heaven
An’ I hope your journeys not too long
I hope one day we ‘ll be together you and I
Every time I sing your song Hey Joe
Every time I sing your song Hey Joe
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I’m the one who fights your holy wars
Wherever there’s an unjust cause
Or somewhere not worth fighting for
Im always in demand
Always where the hard rain falls
Breaking down all the walls
I answer when revolution calls
I’m the ordinary man , the ordinary woman
I’m the silent suffering majority
oppressed by the minority
Who rule with strange priority
Over what is right and wrong
The poor who starve when famine breaks
And if there’s a God oh my heart aches
For at times it seems like he forsakes
the ordinary man , the ordinary woman
Your sister’s brother’s child
I’m the meek and the mild
I’ll be there long after you have gone
Always in the evening news
The one who has no right to choose
And you never hear my spoken views
I’m your ordinary man , your ordinary woman
I’m the one who works to hauk the coal
Breaks his back and sells his soul
Ends up signing on the dole
For progress that we demand
I bear the child that’s born to be
Yeah woman man like you and me
Growing up and a living free
The ordinary man , yeah the ordinary woman.
Your sister’s brother’s child
I’m the meek and the mild
I’ll be there long after you have gone
Always in the silent frame
No one ever knows my name
I’m the one who always takes the blame
I’m your ordinary man , your ordinary woman
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10. |
Lighthouse
03:33
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I will be a warning
I will be a sign
I will tell of danger
Every night I shine
I will be your angel
Of mercy your guiding light
I’ll always be your Lighthouse
In these troubled times
I will burn forever
Lighting up the sky
Oh, I will be eternal
The flame that never dies
I will be your lifeline
Your friend in these darkest nights
I’ll always be your lighthouse
Darling in these troubled times
I’ll always be your Lighthouse
I will be the keeper
Oh the keeper of the light
I will calm those troubled waters yeah
With a love so bright , so bright
I will be the rock that stands
At the gate of this heavenly island
I will be your Lighthouse
In these troubled times
I will be your Lifeboat
I will put to sea
I will sail the oceans
Oh darling put your trust in me in me
I will be your guardian angel
Of mercy your guiding light
I’ll always be your lighthouse
Oh darling in these troubled times
I‘ll always be your Lighthouse
In these troubled times
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Eddy Morton Stourbridge, UK
As the founder member of The New Bushbury Mountain Daredevils Eddy Morton toured the UK and Europe constantly for eleven years releasing 8 albums During which time the band appeared at every major Folk/Roots Festival in the UK and Europe including Cambridge, Cropredy, Skagen, Guildford, Dranouter, The Badentreffen and many more. His latest solo release Rainbow Man is available on iTunes ... more
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