Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking Mon, 5 Feb 2001 14:18:08 +0100 "Gunnar Hedlund" "Hans Settler" Thanks to Gunnar! @ARTIST: Fairport Convention @ALBUM: Unhalfbricking 1. Genesis Hall 2. Si Tu Dois Partir 3. Authopsy 4. A Sailor's Life 5. Cajun Woman 6. Who Knows Where The Time Goes ? 7. Percy's Song 8. Million Dollar Bash @SONG: Genesis Hall my father, he rides with your sherriffs and I know he would never mean harm but to see both sides of a quarrel is to judge without hate or alarm oh, oh helpless and slow and you don't have anywhere to go you take away homes from the homeless and leave them to die in the cold the gypsy who begged for your presents he will laugh in your face when you're old oh, oh helpless and slow and you don't have anywhere to go well one man he drinks up his whisky another he drinks up his wine and they'll drink 'til their eyes are red with hate for those of a different kind oh, oh helpless and slow and you don't have anywhere to go when the rivers run thicker than trouble I'll be there at your side in the flood it was all I could do to keep myself from taking revenge on your blood oh, oh helpless and slow and you don't have anywhere to go oh, oh helpless and slow and you don't have anywhere to go @SONG: Si Tu Dois Partir c'est pas que je te demande de faire que tu n'as jamais fait c'est seulement qui'il fait trop tard et il fait trop noir pour trouver la porte mais si tu dois partir, va-t'en mais si tu dois partir, va-t'en si non, tu dois rester la nuit c'est pas que je te demande de prendre part dans ce jeu c'est seulement je n'ai pas de montre et tu commandes toujours le par quand mais si tu dois partir, va-t'en mais si tu dois partir, va-t'en si non, tu dois rester la nuit tu sais j'aurai des cauchemars et aussi mauvaise de conscience si je t'empêche des le faire ce que vraiment tu espèrs mais si tu dois partir, va-t'en mais si tu dois partir, va-t'en si non, tu dois rester la nuit la La La ... @SONG: Authopsy you must philosophise but why must you bore me to tears you're red around the eyes you tell me things no one else hears you spend all your time crying crying the hours into years crying the hours into years come, lend your time to me and you will know that you are free and when you look at me don't think you're owning what you see for remember that you're free and that's what you want to be so just lend your time to me you must philosophise but why must you bore me to tears you're red around the eyes you tell me things no one else hears you spend all your time crying crying the hours into years crying the hours into years @SONG: A Sailor's Life a sailor's life, it is a merry life he robs young girls of their hearts' delight leaving them behind to weep and mourn they never know when they will return well, there's four and twenty all in a row my true love he makes the finest show he's proper tall, genteel and all and if I don't have him, I'll have none at all oh father, build for me a bonny boat that on the wide ocean I may float and every Queen's ship that we pass by there I'll enquire for my sailor boy they had not sailed long on the deep when a Queen's ship they chanced to meet you sailors all, pray tell me true does my sweet William sail among your crew oh no, fair maiden, he is not here for he's been drownded we greatly fear on yon green island as we passed it by there we lost sight of your sailor boy well, she wrung her hands and she tore her hair she was like a young girl in great despair and her little boat against a rock did run how can I live now my sweet William is gone @SONG: Cajun Woman baby, that preacher gave you spring in the window with his finger in the undertaker's wing oh cajun woman, some people still call you a queen I don't believe you're sinking look at all the trouble you've been he grew up in the Bayou with a Bible around his neck he never loved a woman the way you would expect oh cajun woman, some people still call you a queen I don't believe you're sinking look at all the trouble you've been don't tell him about his father, don't tell him about his name the God's won't get to heaven then they'll crucify his brain oh cajun woman, some people still call you a queen I don't believe you're sinking look at all the trouble you've been well it's welcome to the graveyard and welcome to the throne welcome to the orphanage where your family sit and moan welcome to the liquor stand and welcome to the poor your mama never told you how lucky you are oh cajun woman, some people still call you a queen I don't believe you're sinking look at all the trouble you've been @SONG: Who Knows Where The Time Goes ? across the evening sky, all the birds are leaving but how can they know it's time for them to go before the winter fire, I will still be dreaming I have no thought of time for who knows where the time goes who knows where the time goes sad, deserted shore, your fickle friends are leaving ah, but then you know it's time for them to go but I will still be here, I have no thought of leaving I do not count the time for who knows where the time goes who knows where the time goes and I am not alone while my love is near me I know it will be so until it's time to go so come the storms of winter and then the birds in spring again I have no fear of time for who knows how my love grows and who knows where the time goes @SONG: Percy's Song bad news, bad news, come to me where I sleep turn, turn, turn again say, one of your friends is in trouble deep turn, turn, to the rain and the wind tell me the trouble, tell me once to my ear turn, turn, turn again Joliet prison and ninety-nine years turn, turn, to the rain and the wind oh, what's the charge of how this came to be turn, turn, turn again manslaughter in the highest degree turn, turn, to the rain and the wind I sat down and wrote the best words I could write turn, turn, turn again explaining to the judge I'd be there on Wednesday night turn, turn, to the rain and the wind without a reply, I left by the moon turn, turn, turn again and was in his chambers by the next afternoon turn, turn, to the rain and the wind would you tell me the facts, I said without fear turn, turn, turn again that a friend of mine could get ninety-nine years turn, turn, to the rain and the wind a crash on the highway, flew the car to a field turn, turn, turn again there was four persons killed and he was at the wheel turn, turn, to the rain and the wind but I knew him as good as I'm knowing myself turn, turn, turn again and he wouldn't harm a life that belonged to someone else turn, turn, to the rain and the wind the judge he spoke out of the side of his mouth turn, turn, turn again saying, the witness who saw, he left without doubt turn, turn, to the rain and the wind that may be true, he's got a sentence to serve turn, turn, turn again but ninety-nine years he just don't deserve turn, turn, to the rain and the wind too late, too late, for his case it is sealed turn, turn, turn again his sentence it is passed and cannot be repealed turn, turn, to the rain and the wind but he ain't no criminal and his crime it is none turn, turn, turn again what happened to him could happen to anyone turn, turn, to the rain and the wind at that the judge jumped forward and his face it did freeze turn, turn, turn again saying, could you kindly leave my office now please turn, turn, to the rain and the wind his eyes looked funny and I stood up so slow turn, turn, turn again with no other choice except for to go turn, turn, to the rain and the wind I walked down the hallway and I heard his door slam turn, turn, turn again I walked down the courthouse stairs and did not understand turn, turn, to the rain and the wind and I played my guitar through the night to the day turn, turn, turn again and the only tune my guitar could play was The Old Cruel Rain And The Wind @SONG: Million Dollar Bash well, that big dumb blonde with Gorgeous George and Turtle, a friend of theirs, with his cheques all forged and his cheeks in a trunk with a cheese in the cash you're all gonna be there at that million dollar bash and it's ooh baby, ooh-ee, ooh baby, ooh-ee it's that million dollar bash everybody from right now go over there and back the louder they come, well the bigger they crack come now, sweet cream, and don't forget the flash we're all gonna meet at that million dollar bash well, I took my counsellor out to the barn Silly Nelly was there, she told him a yarn then along came Jones and emptied the trash everybody went down to that million dollar bash well, I been hittin' it too hard, you know, my stones won't take I get up in the morning, bit too early to wake first it's, hello, then goodbye, they push and they crash but everybody's gonna make it to that million dollar bash well, I looked at my watch then I looked at my wrists punched myself in my face with my fists and I took my taters back a-home to be mashed but then I made it right on to that million dollar bash