TONY JOE WHITE
THEY CAUGHT THE DEVIL AND PUT HIM IN JAIL IN EUDORA, ARKANSAS
(Tony Joe White)
I was walking down a dirt road
And the night was coming on fast
I had gone to for some corn meal for our supper
By the time I got to miss Johnson's house
I knew there was something wrong
By the worried look she had upon her face
I said: Miss Johnson could you tell me
What are you shaking for
She said: Lord, they caught the devil
And they got him in jail in Eudora, Arkansas
And he's got a mean that looked like leather
And a long and foggy tail
And when he touches it against the sepbars
Sparks would fly
I did not know of what she spoke
But I believed every word she said
And I burned the souls of my feet on my way back home
Well the next day a crowd had gathered
Out in front of the Eudora jailhouse
But there was not a chase to be seen of the devil
Now the jailer had been a poor man
And now his pockets were stuffed with money
And he was sitting outside in a BRand new Continental Lincoln
With famous skirts on it
He would not say where he got the money
Was he a part of the devils bargain?
And did he set him free that night in Eudora, Arkansas?
Now who's to say
THE CHANGE
(Tony Joe White)
You know sometimes a song needs singing
But sometimes it needs something else
I believe the best way to get this to you
Will just be tell you all about it
It's about the time of the year
Now we call it the fall
Oh yeah
It's a time when you can feel a change coming
Like sometimes late in the evening
You can feel a little BRisk air
Nipping at the back of your neck
Kind of make you wanna scrunch up your shoulders
And put a blue jeans jumper up around you
Yeah
You can feel it in your bones
You know a change is gonna come
Oh and a change never done nobody no harm
And it's the time that always makes me think about
Old hobo's sitting out around the campfires at night
Fall and some coffee in an old tin can
With their jumpers pulled up around their heads
Trying to stay warm
Listen to them
Oh yeah
But it is also a time when I get a restless feeling
Inside my bones
Makes me wanna just get on a freight train and ride somewhere
Like there is something somewhere
Saying come see about me and check it out
You can feel it in your bones oh yes you can
You know a change is gonna come
And a change never done nobody no harm
And it's a time if you go out in the woods very much
You can see the turning of the leaves
Kind of smells good to you
Yeah
But it don't last long
For you know it winter done coming jumping down on you
And you are really are hugging up in your coat
Trying to get yourself warm
Uhu oh Lord
But it's a good time
It's a good thing
It's a change
You can feel it in your bones
You know a change is bound to come
And a change never done nobody no harm
The change is coming
MY KIND OF WOMAN
(Tony Joe White)
I was feeling bad
Kind of sad
And I did not know the cause or the reason
Then you came
Walking by
And you took away that sad and lonesome feeling
All the girls they look from you
And girl you made me smile
Would you come closer to me
Let me talk with you a while
Cause baby you're my kind of woman
You were stepping high
Looking fine
Taking time to be a natural woman
When I looked at you
That was when I knew
You were just the kind of girl I've been wantin'
You are such a lovely thing
I love to look at you
Come over here and talk to me
Let me get to know you
Cause baby you're my kind of woman
I know there are lots of other guys trying to get to you
But baby they can't love you good as I can
No no no
They know what you want
But I know what you need
Come over here to me and you will understand
Oh baby!
You are such a lovely thing
I love to look at you
Come over here and talk to me
And let me get to know you
Cause baby you're my kind of woman
THE DADDY
(Tony Joe White)
I know that you don't understand the reason
Why he ask you where've you been
So you dug into your room and tell him
You were hanging out with some of your girlfriends
But did you ever stop and think
Maybe he just wants to know if you had a good time
And if he askes you why do you wear your blue jeans
When they're old and torn
Well he don't know that blue jeans do not have no soul
Until they are fainted and warm
But don't take it all to hard
Cause he's just trying to be a part of your life
Yes he is
And if he does not like to hear the music you are playing
Well maybe he don't understand the words we are saying
But he is still the man who BRought you into this world
And he's got to live here too
And a little respect
A little respect will never hurt you
Oh yeah
And if he says your hair is more becoming
When it does not hang so long
Just tell him when the cold wind blow it covers up your ears
And keeps you warm
Uh don't take it all to hard
Cause he is just trying to be a part of your life
Yes he is
And if he does not like to hear the music you are playing
Well maybe he don't understand the words we are saying
But he is still the man who BRought you into this world
And a little respect
A little respect will never hurt you
Oh no it won't
And if he says your hair is more becoming
When it does not hang so long
Just tell him when the cold wind blow it covers up your ears
And keeps you warm
Oh don't take it all to hard
Cause he is just trying to be a part of your life
The man is trying
He may not know how but he's trying to be a part of your life
Oh yeah
BLACK PANTHER SWAMPS
(Tony Joe White)
Swamps would you hide me?
Hide me from the law
Let your witches hair emBRace me
And I won't leave no trace at all
Hounddog I hear you howling
Howling for my blood
But freedom is all around me
Cause I'm at home
In the black panther swamps
Feel like ...
Feel like coming
See the mist rising of the ground
And I can go on about my business
Cause the law and the dog are heading for town
Haha
FIVE SUMMERS FOR JIMMY
(Tony Joe White)
She cleaned of the supper table and washed the dishes
And went outside to catch the evening BReeze
The smell of sweet magnolia still on the summernight
And she hummed the song that set her mind at ease
She closed her eyes and remembered another night like this
It had been the sixteenth year of her life
When the one she loved let sit with her on the poet's swing
And told her he was going off to fight
Five summers came in fail across her shoulders
And the only news she heard was from her heart
And all this time she kept on waiting
Through the long hot summers
And the cold nights of winter she waited
And when about three weeks before
That heard that the war was over
And she still hadn't heard no news from him
She never once let it cross her mind
That he wouldn't be coming back to her
And on this particular night
That she sat there on the old poet's swing
She suddenly got up
And went around the south of the house
And got some water out of the old rain barrel
And she washed her hair
And BRushed it 'til it shined
And went inside and put on her prettiest yellow dress
And she waited by the window through the night
The morning sun came shining through her restless dreams
And she awoke to somebody whistling her favourit song
And although he was walking slowly with a slight limb
She could tell that it was Jimmy and he was home
A NIGHT IN THE LIFE OF A SWAMP FOX
(Tony Joe White)
I step off off the aeroplane
And the hall cuts through my clothes
Like I was naked
I walked down to the bagage claim
And the situation there is what I expected
My bags were left in Memphis
And I am standing there wondering what to do?
When a cat walks up from the local news
And says: Can I get an interview?
No, no, no, no I said no, no, no, no
No, no, no
Another night in the life of a swamp fox
We get into a taxi cab and we're late
So we rush down to the Colosseum
Promotion man at the front door
And I can tell no matter what I say
That I just want to please him
He said that the tickets are selling to slow
And now it's starting to rain
When a cat walks up with a soulful look
And says: Can you spare some change?
No, no, no, no he said no, no, no, no
No baby
Another night in the life of a swamp fox
And now we walk out on the stage
And we get into a thing called Polk Salad Annie
...Ungr for some of you never been down south...
And it's looking like we got it made
Til it gets to the part where it says
...That the 'gators got your granny...
The people are feeling the music
And the groove is knocking me out
When a cat hollers out from the front row
And says: Can you play it wipe out?
No, no, no, no I said no, baby
No, no, no, no
Another night in the life of a swamp fox
No, I can't play that song
TRAVELING BONE
(Tony Joe White)
Traveling down on highway 65 and I was cold
The wind was howling loud around my shoes
I turned my back into the wind
And pulled my blue jeans coat up around my head
I had a job driving trucks for the city
I've made her and hit her but I quit it
And left the place the same way I came in
And went up to North Carolina
With good intentions of being a pipeline man
To back of fields and rolling hills
And the autumn leaves they were rigging
But I'll take my load to the open road
Cause my traveling bone is here
If you see me passing by your window
Or should you find my campfire aside the road
Remember that I'm only looking for
Something that I lost a long long time ago
To back of fields and rolling hills
And the autumn leaves they were rigging
But I'll take my load to the open road
Cause my traveling bone is aching
Oh yeah
I JUST WALKED AWAY
(Tony Joe White)
I walked out of your appartment
I left you sleeping on your bed
I won't have to look back over my shoulder
But I did not turn my head
We had a good arrangement
Yes we did
But now I felt the need to move
But things had not worked out like I planned
Cause I've been come attached to you
There was no way to tell you baby
All the things I had to say
So I just walked away
And mistin' rain had started falling
The kind that chills you to the bone
And I had a soulful feeling
But it did not stay to long
Oh I knew I had it coming
But I believe it'd come and gone
And this lonesome feeling inside me oh Lord
Makes me know I stayed to long
There was no way to tell you baby
All the things I wanted to say
So I just walked away
I left you baby
Uhu I hated to go
But I just could not explain
The way I felt about it
Uhu baby I left you
I hated to leave you
Sleeping on your bed
When you needed me most
Uh I left you
A mistin' rain was falling
The kind that chills you
When you need somebody to lay beside you
And there's a time that I picked to leave you
And I hated to go
But it just couldn't tell you
The way I felt about the situation
Uhu Baby
I want it so bad to find some way
Of just coming out and telling you
That I did not want to love you so much
Oh but I just couldn't
So I just walked away
COPPER KETTLE
(Bob Dylan)
Get you copper kettle
Get you copper corn all
And fill it with new made corn match
And never more you're tall
You just lay there by the junipers
While the moon is BRight
And watch them jugs a-filling
In the pale moonlight
Mildew fall with hickory
Hickory as an oak
Don't you use no green or rotten wood
Cause it will get you by the smoke
And you just lay there by the junipers
While the moon is BRight
And watch them jugs filling
In the pale pale pale moonlight
Just lay there by the junipers
While the moon is BRight
And watch them jugs filling
In the pale pale pale pale pale moonlight
My daddy he made whisky yes he did
And my granddaddy he did it too
We ain't paid no whisky tax since 1792
Cause we just layed there by the junipers
While the moon was BRight
And watch them jugs a-filling
In the pale moonlight
VOODOO VILLAGE
(Leann White)
They say your village lies
In the western part of town
And that evil spirits are lurking all around
But I'm not scared of you
For evil can be found
Looking almost anywhere not just in voodoo town
Voodoo village don't put no spell on me
Voodoo village your chumps I have to see
If I could be like others who fear reality
If I could be like others your chumps I wouldn't see
But voodoo village you seem a lot like me
Voodoo village your chumps I need to see
I know to when gates unknown could BRing fear and pain
But what good is life anyway if you don't play the game
So voodoo village would you will your gift for me
Voodoo village show your chumps to me
Voodoo
Voodoo village
Voodoo village
Uh yeah
The lyrics of Tony Joe White you find on Leocort's Pages are all
"listen back and wrote down by"
Maurice Estourgie (Netherlands)
He has stopped his own sitepart with especially the lyrics of Tony Joe White.
My appreciation to him for disposal his works to me.