HOMEMADE ICE CREAM
SATURDAY NITE IN OAK GROVE, LOUISIANA
(Tony Joe White)
You get home just about sundown
And dunk into the shower
And now you started to run around
And you know you've only got an hour
To comb your hair and put your good clothes on
Everything has gotta be right 'cause it's saturday nite
You call your best friend on the telephone
And just about seven you hear him coming
With his fiberclass mufflers on his pick up truck
Cause when you look good uh baby you feel good
Everything is gonna be right 'cause it's saturday nite
You got to town and circle the dairy queen
To see who is hanging out
With your head all stuck out the window
You don't care if it all hangs out
Cause when you feel good uhu mama you look good
Everything is gonna be right 'cause it's saturday nite
FOR OL TIMES SAKE
(Tony Joe White)
Before you go and walk out on me
Take a look around and tell me what you see
Here I stand like an open book
Is there something here you might have overlooked
Cause it would be a shame if you leave me
And find that freedom aint what you thought it would be
The years we had were not all bad
In fact I know the good outweighted the bad
But now you say that you've grown tight
And you want to be by yourself a while
Well it would be a shame if you go
And find that freedom was a long time ago
I know that you can't stand for chains to bind you
But they just keep on driving us apart
And you could go where I would never find you
Could you go far enough to get away from your heart
So one more time for ol times sake
Come and lay your head upon my chest
Please don't throw this moment away
We can't forget the bad and take the best
But if you don't have nothing left to say
Let me hold you one more time for ol times sake
And if you don't have nothing left to say
Let me hold you one more time for ol times sake
I WANT LOVE ('TWEEN YOU AND ME)
(Tony Joe White)
Aint no use in sittin' home tonight
But there aint no place I want to go
Your things all kind of slow
And they're playing them lonesome songs on the radio
Wish that I could get her off my back
Should go out and have myself a time
But there's something 'bout her smile
And I wish that she would come back for a while
Yeah
Got to find a way to let her know
But I just don't know which way to go
Yeah oh babe
I just got to make you see
All I want is love 'tween you and me
Yeah yeah
Don't you think it's time we got together
Cause babe you've kept me waiting for so long
Oh it's a natural fact
I love you and I just can't hold it back
Oh no
I got to find a way to let her know
But I just don't know which way to go
Oh no no
Oh mama
I just got to make you see
All I want is love 'tween you and me
Uhu yeah yeah
Yeah .....
HOMEMADE ICE CREAM
(Tony Joe White)
Instrumental
OL' MOTHER EARTH
(Tony Joe White)
Ol' mother earth they have made so many scars upon your face
And the beauty you once had can never be replaced
Long for wild earth
You were pounted by the meters from the sky
But you did no die
And now the ones that you have loved
Are taking you for granted
Here they're so inchanted
By the progress they can make
They never stop to think
Just how much that you can take
Mother earth take us back to when the proud ones lived
They only took what you would give
Mother earth tonight before I lay my body down
I'll pray to the Lord that a way can be found
And if bad goes to works
The Lord help me try to do my best
Until once again mother earth
You hold me to your breast
LAZY
(Tony Joe White)
Lazy
Today you know I feel so dog gone lazy
I believe my get-up-and-go has done gotta be gone
Today I just can't get it on
Loving uh baby you know I could go for some good old loving
But you will have to come to me 'cause you know I am so weak
Today I just can't get on my feet
I guess that I should have some more ambition
And go out in the world and do my thing
But I had rather be on a river fishing
Or dreaming of a trip on an old freight train
Lazy
Today you know I feel so dog gone lazy
I believe my get-up-and-go has done gotta be gone
Today I just can't get it on
I guess that I should have some more ambition
And go out in the world and do my thing
But I had rather be on a river fishing
Or dreaming of a trip on an old freight train
Lazy
Today you know I feel so dog gone lazy
I believe my get-up-and-go has done gotta be gone
Today I just can't get it on
CALIFORNIA ON MY MIND
(Tony Joe White)
I sit here by my window pane and all I see is the falling rain
And I can feel the blues coming down on me
If only wishing worked for me
There's a place I'ld like to be
But my wishes never do come true for me
California on my mind
I want to feel your warm sunshine
I know that it would set me free
Just to feel that ocean breeze
And I could hear a good song night or day
I would walk the country mile
To see a california smile
But these old dark clouds tell me it's so far away
California on my mind
I want to feel your warm sunshine
I guess I could go walking just the same
And make believe it's california rain
But it's not the same
And it's a sin
I guess I sit here in my room
And try to think of a happy tune
I watch a TV-show I've seen before
Oh mister sun you've let me down
The least you could do is come around
Would you please tell me what you are away for
California on my mind
I want to feel your warm sunshine
Today hey hey hey
Oh yeah .....
BACKWOODS PREACHER MAN
(Tony Joe White)
Way down in the country
Back in the Arkansas woods
There's a man there working for Jesus
Trying to do some good
He don't have no fancy building
Just a big ol' raggin' tent
And the people who come to see him
Believe he was heaven sent
Backwoods preacher man
Doing the best he can
Backwoods preacher man
Trying to give the Lord a hand
When you hear him talk about Jesus
You know they're the best of friends
Just one look and you can tell
He will give the devil hell
And help you wash away your sins
Same backwoods preacher man
Doing the best he can
Backwoods preacher man
Trying to give the Lord a hand
Let me tell everybody
Tremble down to his shoes
When you hear that backwoods preacher
Singing those gospel blues
Backwoods preacher man
Doing the best he can
Backwoods preacher man
Trying to give the Lord a hand
Same backwoods preacher man
Doing the best he can
Backwoods preacher man
Trying to give the Lord a hand
Backwoods preacher man
Backwoods preacher man
Backwoods preacher man
TAKING THE MIDNITE TRAIN
(Tony Joe White)
Taking the midnite train, taking the midnite train
I can't stand this pain, I can't stand this pain
To have somebody hurt me for no reason
For no cause, for no cause
I left home very young, I left home very young
To the California sun, to the California sun
And there a lady took me for her lover
She was the one, she was the one
It seemed we were made for each other
And I, I couldn't have been more satisfied
But then one nite she packed her bags
And left without a word
And I guess I never know the reason why
And it ain't no use in saying I never loved her
Cause I did, God knows I did
I'm taking the midnite train, I'm taking the midnite train
I can't stand this pain, I just can not stand this pain
To have somebody hurt me for no reason
For no cause, for no cause
Uh Lord Lord Lord hmmm
NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS
(Tony Joe White)
Take the morning paper of my doorstep
I don't get a look at it today
I woke up this morning with a good feeling
And I don't want the bad news in the way
No news is good news, no news is good news
Oh I got a letter from my baby
She said: Honey I'm doing fine
And even though I'm going out with other guys
But I still think about you all the time
I said: No news is good news, no news is good news
Yeah yeay yeah
I was home watching television
And the wild wild west was coming on
Then a special news report flashed across the screen
He said: Due to the following this program ought to be shunt
No news is good news
I said: No news is good news
DID SOMEBODY MAKE A FOOL OUT OF YOU
(Tony Joe White)
Did somebody make a fool out of you
Did somebody mistreat you
Well I know that to hold it back
You got a lot more love then that
Did somebody make a fool out of you
Did somebody run away with your heart
Did somebody tear you all apart
I know you've been treated bad
But you don't have to look so sad
Did somebody make a fool out of you
I know it's hard to love someone again
When somebody has torn you all apart
But come on and let yourself go
And don't think about it anymore
I know that'll steal a whole lot of loving in your heart
Oh baby
Did somebody make a fool out of you
Did somebody mistreated you
Oh 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.