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Runaway Train
04:03
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Get Happy
03:09
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Look But Not Touch
03:48
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Cathouse Lil
04:23
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Save Me from Myself
02:55
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My Good Ol' Gal
02:43
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7. |
Lord Please Help Me
03:51
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Lord Won’t You Please Help Me? [Bazza’s Blues]
©2005 Words & Music : B.Ferrier
I hope the Good Lord’s watching
And he’s got a Great Big Plan
That includes the Day of Judgement
When the human race is ran
I know there’s children starving
And my troubles may seem small
But that don’t help you too much
When you’re climbing up the wall
I’m trying to understand – Lord won’t you please help me?
Well, this booze it numbs my senses
When the blues they cloud my mind
And you just drive me crazy
You keep trying to be kind
I can’t help but question‘
cause this chaos makes no sense
and one thing worse than Blind Faith
is sitting on the fence
Get it wrong or get it right
You got to do whatever gets you through the night
Get down on your knees with me and pray we’ll see the light
Lord won’t you help me to see?
Lord won’t you please help me?
Wait for a small patch of blue through the grey
my hopes and ambitions they're all slipping away
Rich man or poor man
The Weak or the Strong
Each find their own way
To measure right from wrong
Well There ain't no use pretending
there is little doubt
Just how this proposition
will finally all turn out
I'm staring at a bottle like it's some crystal ball
I took my anaesthetic but it didn't help at all
I’m trying to understand – Lord won’t you please help me?
I see the dark brooding clouds up building up in the sky
a big storm is a brewing yes it's coming by and by
where're we gonna run tow
ho you gonna pay
there ain't no lawyer you can hire
when it comes to Judgement Day
Well, maybe God is sleeping
Or it’s fun he’s trying to poke
But it’s way beyond my power
To understand the joke
You can’t change things for the better
On this Planet of Despair
While you’re watching television
From your easy chair
Get it wrong or get it right
You got to do whatever gets you through the night
Get down on your knees with me and pray we’ll see the light
Lord won’t you help me to see?
Lord won’t you please help me?
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Desert Train
05:12
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Shining in the moonlight,
Snaking around the rocky range
Into the desert sunrise,
the window is my frame
I’m riding up the centre line
I've got to feel that desert one more time
I’m riding on the desert train
This train has got a rhythm, gonna hypnotise my brain
Slap that beat on your rhythm guitar and sing that song,
sing that song again
The miles keep rolling by
When you‘re riding on that desert train
Get on board, get on board the Ghan,
when you get on board - you can’t get off again
You and me making love all night in the sleeping car
across the empty plain
Clickety clack on the rickety track, mile after mile
till the sun came up again
Albert Namitjira upon the school house wall
Taught me how to see this place,
where one man seems so small
the miles keep rolling by,
when you're riding on the desert train
I'm riding on the desert
I'm gonna feel that space again
I'm going where it rarely rains
on the desert train
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9. |
Blues & Roots
04:38
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Blues and Roots Music 2005 Words & Music : B.Ferrier
Hey there woman with your ruby red lips
You look so cute with your hands on your hips
I know a place on the edge of town
They play blues music when the sun goes down
They call that place the Sugar Shack
Slip through the bar to a room out the back
It’s on the wrong side of the railroad tracks
A crazy little joint where we can relax
They got dobro steel and a white double bass
A big black bouncer with a smile on his face
Down in the swamp where the horny owl hoots,
That’s where I get my blues and roots (music that is)
Two old coots, dressed in suits, playing blues and roots,
Never goin’ out of fashion
Got a good beat, make you tap your feet, blues and roots music
Got authentic style
Sugar Shack bar-flies playing blues and roots music
That’s my passion …….I don’t give two hoots
Just got to get my blues and roots (music)
Take you driving in my pink Cadillac
It’s got white wall wheels and a tele in the back
At the Sugar Shack Bar you’ll never feel blue
We’re gonna shimmy, gonna boogie boogaloo
I got my cowboy shirt and crocodile boots
All I need now is blues and roots (music that is)
I’m a simple man and I like to get higher
Rootsy Music gonna light my fire
And when we stumble back to my hotel room
I’m gonna show you how to boom, boom, boom
We’ll get together girl, in cahoots
I’m gonna teach you ‘bout blues and roots (music that is)
Two old coots, dressed in suits, playing blues and roots
Never goin’ out of fashion
Got a good beat, make you tap your feet, blues and roots music
Got authentic style
Sugar Shack bar-flies playing blues and roots music
That’s my passion …….I don’t give two hoots
I just got to get my blues and roots (music)
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Dr. Baz aka Barry Ferrier Byron Bay, Australia
Australian composer Barry Ferrier (aka Dr Baz) is a talented multi-instrumentalist & eclectic, award winning song writer, who writes in a surprising range of styles & genres, all with a theatrical flair. He is also a virtuoso guitarist producing tasty instrumental tracks. With a fascinating history, he has performed all over Australia and in Europe and the UK. ... more
Dr. Baz aka Barry Ferrier recommends:
Western swing & cajun cowboy country, Pickens and Baz trading songs & vocals and playing just about everything besides drums & fiddle - a little gem of a record. ..Martin Jones (Rhythms Magazine 2009)
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