Lyrics to new songs
sung at the late 2005 gigs


Songs played at gigs recently ...

Weight Of A Man
How Did We Get From Saying I Love You?
Land Of The Second Chance
Mickey
Swept Away Bayou
Worst In The World
Raewyn
I Miss My Mind
Mr. Harris
What You Want Me To Forget
Things Have Got To Change
Memorial Day
One Good Year
My Hand, My Heart
Folsom Prison Blues
Breathless
Another Girl, Another Planet
Testify
Jock Stewart
Molly Malone
Keep Your Hands To Yourself
La complainte de la butte - Alan Doyle
 
 
I got a little change in my pocket goin' jing-a-ling-a-ling
Wants to call you on the telephone baby, a-give you a ring
But each time we talk, I get the same old thing
Always no hugg-ee no kiss-ee until I get a weddin' ring
My honey my baby, don't put my love upon no shelf
She said don't hand me no lines and keep your hands to yourself
 
B-b-b-baby baby baby why you wan' treat me this way
You know I'm still your lover boy I still feel the same way
That's when she told me a story, 'bout free milk and a cow
And said no hugg-ee no kiss-ee until I get a weddin' vow
My honey my baby, don't put my love upon no shelf
She said don't hand me no lines and keep your hands to yourself
 
(Go man go)
 
Hold it here
See I wanted her real bad, and I was about to give in
But that's when she started talking about true love,
started talking about sin
And I said, honey I'll live with you for the rest of my life,
She said no hugg-ee no kiss-ee until you make me your wife-a
My honey my baby, don't put my love upon no shelf
She said don't hand me no lines and keep your hands to yourself


Jock Stewart (I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day)
 
Oh my name is Jock Stewart
I'm a canny gaun man
but a rovin' young fellow I've been
 
|: So be easy and free,
When you're drinking with me,
I'm a man you don't meet every day. :|
 
I have acres of land
I have men at command
but I've always a shilling to spare
 
|: So be easy and free,
When you're drinking with me,
I'm a man you don't meet every day. :|
 
I took out my gun
and my dog for a shoot
along the banks of the Spey
 
|: So be easy and free,
When you're drinking with me,
I'm a man you don't meet every day. :|
 
So come fill up your glass
of brandy or wine
and whatever the cost I will apy
 
|: So be easy and free,
When you're drinking with me,
I'm a man you don't meet every day. :|


Molly Malone (Cockles and Mussels)
 
Dublin on the East Coast of Ireland has come a long way since Molly Malone was immortalized in the famous song and has now become a statue close to the Main shopping area of Grafton Street. Erected to commemorate Dublin's own millennium, a statue of Molly Malone pensively stares at passers-by on the southern end of Grafton Street. Ever ready for a comic put-down, Dubliners immediately christened the well-endowed Molly "the tart with the cart."
 
In Dublin's fair city where the girls are so pretty
I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone
As she wheels her wheel barrow through the streets broad and narrow
Crying cockles and mussels alive alive-o
 
Chorus:
Alive alive-o, alive alive-o
Crying cockles and mussels alive alive-o
 
She was a fishmonger but sure 'twas no wonder
For so were her father and mother before
And they both wheeled their barrow
through streets broad and narrow
Crying cockles and mussels alive alive-o
 
She died of a fever and no one could save her
And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone
But her ghost wheels her barrow
through streets broad and narrow
Crying cockles and mussels alive alive-o
 


La complainte de la butte - By Georges Van Parys, Jean Renoir
 [Rufus Wainwright - Moulin Rouge (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)]
En haut de la rue St-Vincent
Un poète et une inconnue
S'aimèrent l'espace d'un instant
Mais il ne l'a jamais revue
 
Cette chanson il composa
Espérant que son inconnue
Un matin d'printemps l'entendra
Quelque part au coin d'une rue
 
La lune trop blême
Pose un diadème
Sur tes cheveux roux
La lune trop rousse
De gloire éclabousse
Ton jupon plein d'trous
 
La lune trop pâle
Caresse l'opale
De tes yeux blasés
Princesse de la rue
Soit la bienvenue
Dans mon coeur blessé
 
Les escaliers de la butte sont durs aux miséreux
Les ailes des moulins protègent les amoureux
 
Petite mendigote
Je sens ta menotte
Qui cherche ma main
Je sens ta poitrine
Et ta taille fine
J'oublie mon chagrin
 
Je sens sur tes lèvres
Une odeur de fièvre
De gosse mal nourri
Et sous ta caresse
Je sens une ivresse
Qui m'anéantit
 
Les escaliers de la butte sont durs aux miséreux
Les ailes des moulins protègent les amoureux
 
Mais voilàqu'il flotte
La lune se trotte
La princesse aussi
Sous le ciel sans lune
Je pleure à la brune
Mon rêve évanoui

Another Girl, Another Planet

Wonderful 1978 single, a rush of joy most obviously in praise of love, space travel, and joy itself; less often realized at the time as an allegory of the giddy first steps in heroin addiction by its composer Peter Perrett.
 
always flirt with death
I could kill, but I don't care about it
I can face your threats
And stand up straight and tall and shout about it
 
I think I'm on another world with you (with you)
I'm on another planet with you (with you)
 
You get under my skin
I don't find it irritating
You always play to win
But I don't need rehabilitating no no
 
I think I'm on another world with you (with you)
I'm on another planet with you (with you)
 
Another girl, another planet
Another girl, another planet
 
Space travel's in my blood
There ain't nothing I can do about it
Long journeys wear me out
But i know i can't live with out it, i know
 
I think I'm on another world with you (with you)
I'm on another planet with you (with you)
I think I'm on another world with you (with you)
I'm on another planet with you (with you)
 
Another girl is loving you now
Another planet, who's holding you down
Another planet
Russell Crowe & The Ordinary Fear Of God
 
Russell Crowe and his new band this week kick off a residency at the Vanguard in Sydney behind his solo album "My Hand, My Heart" and have also this week added extra dates. At a show on the weekend in Melbourne, he told stories, sang, and got people up dancing.
 

Fri 9 and Sat 10 Buderim Tavern
Sun 11 Dec Southport RSL
Tues Dec 13 The Vanguard, Sydney
Tues Dec 20 The Vanguard, Sydney - no Alan
Tues Dec 27 The Vanguard, Sydney - no Alan
Thur Jan 12 Yamba Bowling Club
Fri 13 & Sat 14 Coffs Harbour Hotel
Thu Jan 19 Clarendon Guest House, Katoomba
Fri Jan 20 The Brewery, Newcastle
Sat Jan 21 Great Northern Backroom, Byron Bay

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