LYRICS OF (UNRELEASED) SONGS
I PROTEST
(Wayne / Carson / Thompson)
Something I need I aint getting from you
There aint no extremes that I wouldn't go to
If I have to march up and down your street
Till I wear the souls clean off of my feet
Then baby I protest
I think I'm gonna
I protest
I believe I've gotta protest
Oh yeah the way you've been treating me
I love you girl and I'm making it plain
You run me off I've got to come back again
Yes I will
If I have to sit down and paint myself a sign
That says you aint gonna be nobody but mine
Then baby I protest
I think I've gotta
I protest
I believe I will
I protest you
Yes I do
The way you've been treating me
If you think I am fooling
When I say I'm gonna march on you yeah
Well baby I will do it in a New York minute
Just to prove my love is true
If I have to sit down and paint myself a sign
That says you aint gonna be nobody but mine
Then baby I protest
I do I do I protest
I don't want you doing that to me now
I think I've gotta protest against you
Yeah I'm gonna march on you
A one man demonstration
Yes I am
Ungr ungr ungr oh Lord I've got to
What's you're doing-a
Things you will
I'm gonna get in your street
Every day and night and I''m your sign
Yes I am
Oh Lord oh Lord Lord Lord
Yes I think I
I did oh Lord Lord Lord
A MAN CAN ONLY STAND SO MUCH PAIN
(Newberry)
A leaf can cling to a tree for just so long
A cloud can only hold just so much rain
Even mountains have been known to crumble
And a man can only stand just so much pain
A man's love can be his greatest weakness wow aint it true
And no way a man can be strong
When he loves a woman like I love you oh
A night can only last just so many hours
Nothing no nothing can hold back the dawn
So I'm gonna try to make it till morning
But a man can only stand a hurt just so long
A man's love can be his greatest weakness wow aint it true
And no way a man can be strong
When he loves a woman like I love you oh
Even mountains have been known to crumble
And a man can only stand a hurt so much pain
Wow a man can only stand just so much pain
Wow a man can only stand just so much pain yes he can
I said a man can only stand just so much pain
Wow a man can only stand just so much pain
A man can only stand just so much pain
DELTA LOVE
(Tony Joe White)
Oh they came cross the delta
And got together one time again
And camp out on the land
About one hundred miles from New Orleans
And in the glow of a campfire
I saw a man, his children and his wife
Like the others they had come
To get away from their hectic live
Delta love will you be the last?
Has this become a thing of the past?
I know that you can feel it too
You're having a hard time coming through
Yeah, yeah, delta love
I heard the music
Ringing through the dark woods
I saw the candles glowing in the night
And Cheverly River oh I heard you took another life
Delta love will you be the last?
Has this become a thing of the past?
I know that you can feel it too
You're having a hard time coming through
Yeah, yeah, yeah
There were some there who took the bad road
And they looked at me so tired and worn
There were some who died there
But then again another one was born
Delta love can you be found
Tell me what is going down
Has this become a thing of the past?
Delta love will you be the last?
Yeah, yeah
Oh delta love, delta love, delta love, delta love
THAT ON THE ROAD LOOK
(Tony Joe White)
Sunrise find you walking back from a hotel room
Where you're trading some tunes with your friends
And though your eyes are burning and your head is a-turning
It was so good to see them again
And it would feel so good to lay down
But you've got to catch a plane at ten
And one glance into the mirror shows you've got that on the road look again
On the road, on the road
Trying to make a living and trying to ease my restless soul
I had come a long ways for a one night stand
With a rock and roll band to play
I know it might be hard for you to understand
But sometimes it feels good to get away
But it makes me sing a sad song
To find a place where it's hard to make a friend, oh yes it is
And it seems that's when I start to get that on the road feeling again
On the road, on the road
Trying to make a living and trying to ease my restless soul
You know the road gets hard sometimes I've got to say
But I cannot stay away from it too long
Cause once there was a time to go a different way
But I choose to stay and sing my songs
And you know it seems to me now
Like I always have an ol' travellin' bone
One day I am here, the next day I am gone
I hope that I get home 'fore the winter
On the road, on the road
Trying to make a living and trying to ease my restless soul
On the road, on the road, trying
YOU AND ME, BABY
(Tony Joe White)
Summernight, big ol' full moon up above
Ain't it nice when you're with the one that you love
Baby you're the one who's got me feeling so warm
I've got everything you need right here in my arms
You and me baby is all it takes
Just you and me baby we make the stars shine brighter
You and me baby we know the way
As long as we're together that's all that really matters anyway
Oh babe I love the way you're touching me
Yeah it's just the way I've always dreamed it would be
Cause baby you're the one who makes my love light shine
When you turn me on I light up everytime
You and me baby is all I need
Just you and me baby we were made for each other
You and me baby is all I see
We got our love together and baby that's the way it's meant to be, uhuhu
And baby when you're lying close to me
After our love is satisfied
I love the way you reach out in your sleep
Once I charm your hand and then it starts again
You and me baby is all it takes
Just you and me baby we are so good together
You and me baby we know the way
Our love is forever and baby that's the way it's gonna stay
I said you and me baby
Just you and me baby
Oh you
Oh baby (you and me baby)
NOBODY'S BABY TONIGHT
(Buckins)
Baby's been crying again
She let an old heartache back in
This time she's done all she could
And this morning he's left her for good
She's nobody's baby tonight
There's nobody holding her tight
So go home and leave on the light
Cause she's nobody's baby tonight
Lord knows a lady's not strong
Cause she's been his baby so long
And she'll have to learn to rely
On whatever she needs to get by
She's nobody's baby tonight
There is nobody holding her tight
She'll go home and leave on the light
Cause she's nobody's baby tonight
She stops and gets out of the car
And quickly goes into the bar
She swallows what's left of her pride
And then slowly walks up to his side and says
I am nobody's baby tonight
There is nobody holding me tight
I won't say I will but I might
Cause I am nobody's baby tonight
She's nobody's baby tonight
There is nobody holding her tight
She'll go home and leave on the light
Cause she's nobody's baby tonight
She's nobody's baby tonight
FEELIN' LOOSE
(Tony Joe White)
Cruisin' around in mister Fleet
Music making me high
And getting ready to boogie on down tonight
Cause I'm feelin' loose
Feelin' wild
I feel so good
Have to smile
Bright light city
You're pulling on my strings
With your hard rock women
And skin tight jeans
You've got me feelin' loose
Feelin' wild wild wild wild wild
I feel so good
I got to smile
Uh, oh yeah
Aww sexy lady
Do you feel like I do?
I'm ready and I want to share the night with you, oh yeah
Because I'm feelin' loose
Feelin' wild
I wanna make love
For a while
I'm feelin' loose
Feelin' wild
Feel so good, well well
I got to smile
Feelin' loose
Feelin' wild
LIVING IN THE RIVER CITY
(Tony Joe White)
Well I am just a skinny white boy
Brought up on the blues
I never tried to hide it
It's just the way I choose
I was the youngest of seven children
When it came my time to leave
I packed my things and took my dreams
And moved to Memphis, Tennessee
Living in the river city
Living in the river city
There's a smell of barbecue in the air
Music out on the street
It even seem like the Mississippi river
Is moving to the soulful beat
The girls have planned to go barefoot there
And wear those cut off jeans
Little brown things are flashing out
Like something right out of a dream
Living in the river city
Oh I am living in the river city
Oh I am living in the river city
Living in the river city
Living in the river city
Oh living in the river city
TUNICA MOTEL
(Tony Joe White)
Monday looked like a downer
Tuesday looked like rain
A bad attitude
And I knew I needed a change
Head out on the highway
Cruising way down south
I knew a little place
Where I might could work it all out
I'm so tired of fighting with myself
Gonna spend a little time at the Tunica Motel
Just outside of Memphis
Highway 61
Sleepy little town down by the Mississippi River
I'm gonna lay out on the houseboat
Until my hide turns brown
Ain't gonna move 'till the evening sun does down
Fried chicken to go
Ans they got live bait for sale
Anything you need at the Tunica Motel
I find myself at midnight
Moving to the back porch blues
The guitar cries, telling me about the hard times
Something moves in the shadows
Giving me a little chill
I thought I saw Robert Johnson
Walking out across the field
There ain't hardly anybody
Left who even knows the tale
Gimme the blues at the Tunica Motel
ON THE RETURN ON MUSCLE SHOALS
(Tony Joe White)
Brake the drum out of the closet
Tuned up the bass and we hit an E
Hawk on the hood, big motor running
Little Stevie windows on the B3
Seven long years and I was needing to ease my soul
And there was sweat in the room
On the return to Muscle Shoals
Over in Paris it was happening again
Like it always seemed to do
I don't know why
But they seem to understand
Talking 'bout the swampy hoodoo
A long way from Goodwill
But they let me see their soul
And there was talk in the air
On the return to Muscle Shoals
Over in Stockholm they were getting on down
We were reaching for the moon
I was bedridden in Amsterdam
The silence of my guitar filled the room
I had become disoriented
Stranded on the road
And I bet they're frying fish tonight
Way down in Muscle Shoals
ACROSS FROM MIDNIGHT
(Tony Joe White)
It's come down to just the two of us
Me and my shadow on the wall
Radio playing softly somewhere down the hall
And over in the next room
The hollow sound of a cigarette cough
And morning's a long way off
There's a fire in a trash can
In the alley below
The down and outers gather 'round
Sippin' wine and talkin' low
We're companions of the night time
We got no place to go
Sittin' across from midnight
And draggin' by too slow
You can feel the night when you're all alone
There's comfort in the room you keep hangin' on
You wait until the dawn
The skeletons in the closet
March around like a platoon
I guess it's too much to ask for
I need some breathing room
And the tall city buildings
They cover up the moon
Oh I'm sitting across from midnight
And morning can't come too soon
The early morning hours
Bring out the darkness of your thoughts
And you're sitting across from midnight
And morning's a long way off
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.