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sgt bob washed down his sugar buzz from his
chocolate glazed creme stick with another cup of coffee
wiped the caffeine from his lips and lit another
nicotine stick, took an antacid cuz he felt sick
thinkin about us druggies
neighbor joe awake and baked went looking for
something to eat and alas, found nothing in the kitchen
went to buy some chocolate stars and when bob
stopped his speeding car and found green vegetable
matter in a jar
he decided to arrest him
joe called up the office where some hempsters we
were hanging out and he said
do you think that you could help me
i was speeding down on cherry street
with a jar of weed under my seat and the cop asked
if he could take a peek i decided i should let him
i gave the kid a lawyers name and said if this should
happen once again, you know there
is that one amendment
after he poured out his tale of woe i said
where'd you get our number joe?
he said on the back of one of those cards you know,
that tell the police that they can't search me
lawyer dave sat back and put his feet up on the desk
and yawned again as he pondered the day's schedule
pulled out his mirror and had a toot
he had a new pothead to prosecute
heading up the drug task force was such a hoot
he could always keep is nose full
joe's case was heard by mike the judge
who earlier had finished up his lunch
of some coke and a martini
lawyer dave read off the police report and mike
he cut the trial short so they
both could go and have a snort
and he found that joe was guilty
so if you should go driving round
with something that you don't want found
you'd best remember there's a war on
though mother earth provides the seed
those in government call it devil's weed
and they're just looking for some more stuff to seize
so just say no
can i please go now?
copyright 1988 Sue Jeffers
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last monday
02:28
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a new year
04:07
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well you have seen what you know
thru hands that have held my words
but you know in all have never reached
the center of my world
but when i turn around to put my eyes
to the path that leads to here
if you hear me laughing, know it means i
understand, not that i don't care
but i keep getting dizzy
watching words from my mouth turn to words
that i put in your ear turn round in your mind
til they all turn unclear
so i'm here on the floor with my beer while i'm
trying to think
with miles and months between what i
haven't said, what you understand
and what i might sing
well you have seen what you know
thru hands that have held my words
but you know in all have never reached
the center of my world
but when i turn around to put my eyes
to the path that leads to here
if you don't hear anything, know i might not
understand,
not that i don't care
copyright 1996 Sue Jeffers
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stones
03:47
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well i came back up
and i came back around
found nothing was the same
guess i knew that
i knew that anyway
and i made the run up to here
from piketon in less than 4 hours
but it didn't bring me back
and i'm somewhere now the sky
has turned black
well i was high in the woods
some 300 miles down from home
when i felt you turn away
guess i knew that
knew you'd do that anyway
you sent your words down thru the line
said you loved me
tho it sounded like an apology
i made the choice to stay
guess you knew that
knew i'd do that anyway
so i could scream into the trees
or fall laughing to the stones
decide this makes me happy
but i don't want confessions of your sins
against yourself, or her, or him or me
i find guilt to be a useless feeling
and i don't want apologies
copyright 1996 Sue Jeffers
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them is the pants
04:30
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i can tell that things are going bad
i don't know where i went wrong
but i'm beginning to start thinkin
that you won't be mine for long
last night i bailed out billy bob
came home to find you gone
i asked the kids bout were you was
i even looked out in the barn
my overalls they're dirty and the kids
their clothes are black
but each night you go out with that tide
i'm not sure you're coming back
you think i don't know what's going on
you never used to be so clean
but you've been doint laundry every night
to wash out them same black jeans
chorus:
and i know thems the pants that you wear
when you cheat on me
them is the pants that you wear
when you cheat on me
you been wearing them so much now well
you know they're fraying at the seems oh
honey them is the pants that you wear
when you cheat on me
i hear that lonesome whistle blow and i
know that you ain't home
i checked the bowling alley and the bar
and i'm feeling so alone
my buddies, they've been laughing
and momma didn't raise no fool
since you got your ged well i know
you ain't in school
i tried not to be suspicious when
my quarters disappeared
i figured you were at the laundromat
since they started serving beers
but then i saw you in that pickup truck
doing stuff that was obscene
and hanging from the rearview mirror
were them god damned old black jeans
chorus:
copyright 1996 Sue Jeffers
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down the stairs
05:43
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it's about half past happy hour and
i found my words for you
seems you've been gone at least a week now
i may have some problems with your truth
and i'm going to walk down to the corner
cause i know that you're not there
i may find someone new to hang with
first they'll probably have to grow some hair
i went to work one morning
came back your stuff was off the shelf
i was thinking maybe we could have some fun
guess i'm gonna have to do it for myself
and then i'm gonna walk down to the corner
maybe see if you got back in town
and i may miss you for a while
but then i'll buy another round
i came to see you in your valley
and i hiked all thru the mud
the only ones home were the mosquitos
stayed just long enough to lose some blood
now i'm gonna walk down to the corner
and i'll probly look for you
tho i know you're not in town and if you
are you're not alone
i just got nothin else to do
you asked me once if i would marry
but i knew you asked cuz you were just too high
may be the best we had between us was
it didn't mean enough to make me cry
i tried o tell you bout my theory
i guess i never got it right
all that time i thought we were
hanging out as friends
seems you had me auditioning for a wife
and now i'm gonna walk down to the corner
cuz i know you're not in town
yeah, i may miss you for a while
but then i'm gonna buy another round
copyright 1996 Sue Jeffers
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fall
03:51
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instrumental
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father's day
06:15
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and i find myself at the ground
you know one thing about down here
i got nowhere to go but around
and to look for why i ever would fall down
foundation cracked you know it
crumbled almost without sound
and i can't imagine why
why you seemed to be so damn surprised
when you put your share of hits in
then turned around and ran
maybe to wait til i come back up
i know it's time that i come back up
i will come back
blah blah blah.....
but i always thought i'd be stronger than this
i always thought i was stronger than this
i always have been stronger
but i never have been anything like this
copyright 1996 Sue Jeffers
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jan 22nd
05:02
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now i see another morning's come
and it means, means a year has gone
since i paid my money and made my choice
lost my friend, lost my voice
now i say it's good to see the dawn
now i see another snow has come
but i've already spent too long now
feeling cold
and i made my journey and took my chance
got to the floor and i forgot the dance
but while i was feeling like a penny on the tracks
you came and picked me up and
you brought me back
and you made me feel
made me glad to see the dawn
i remember one time praying in the rain
was asking for direction they said
said offer up your pain
but i convinced myuself that's all i had
and i made my choice and didn't take that path
so now you see, it's good to feel the sun
now i see another day has gone
and it means, means another year has come
and we create our own reality and
i'll take that responsibility but
that doesn't mean we have to make it all alone
and if you need somebody i'll be there to help
you home and to make you feel
make you glad to feel the sun
copyright 1996 Sue Jeffers
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and again
04:45
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and again i feel what i want to say
still i just play for you
see when i lost my way
i hoped you would find me on my way back
well i know that i've not been much fun lately
sorry, i just came undone
tried to be so open i just fell in two
hoped you would pull me back to myself
but its not the first time that i've
been down on this floor
and i have to find the vision that
i followed out before
cuz all of kent's buses
and all of her freeks
couldn't start to put together my reality
and today the storm came in waves
i watched the sun thru the grey
long since lost my balance and i fell into a field
i could still make out the rainbow thru the hail
and you know i'm just playing again
the things i should say to you
but it seems that lately i have just been numb
and all my feelings lost behind my tongue
well i know we've been thru worse shit
but this time's not been the best
i've been spending all my energy trying not
to lost the rest
can we move to something else now
have you fucked away your fear?
i know we didn't come this way
just to end up here
copyright 1996 Sue Jeffers
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giblet parts missing
05:40
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well so now what's next
we all have those we'd rather not forget
so what
what do you expect from me
what do you expect?
of all my friends there's so many who
just walked out in the end
and there's been times to be safe that i
probly would have left by now
but so you know i'm not going anywhere
no place else i'd be
but now the sun is round and i'm
finally coming down
there's things round here i'd rather just
not see right now
so i'll close my eyes and be
so now what's nesxt
i don't know what to expect this time
so what
i know i can connect with you
i'll just wait and see
so my friend, i don't have the words
but i don't want to pretend that i
haven't made a choice
there's no way i would have left this time
i'm not going anywhere
no place else i'd be
but now the sun is round and i'm
finally coming down
and there's no one else
i'd rather have beside me now
as i close my eyes and be
copyright 1996 Sue Jeffers
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back in the bus
04:17
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well you said my guitar is my passion
but i smashed that on a log
threw it into the fire and watched it burn
now it's hanging on my wall
and you didn't understand me
y'all thought that maybe i'd gone mad
and i can tell you now if it hadn't been
for that guitar probably one of us would be dead
and as i recall, it wasn't me i had in mind
at the time as i recall
we weren't being all too kind
so i left. i left my inspiration
lost my icepick somewhere in a branch
but you should still keep in mind
just cuz the words you say are true
ain't no excuse to be an ass
but i thinnk we have recovered
or at least we had up until today
but if you start to act that way again
i may have to go away
and i could go for maybe ten days at a time
but you already know, i'll stand by you til you die
in my heart you are my meaning
in my mind sometimes just a curse
thinking back to the time that we first met
i don't know which of those is worse
and i guess i have to sleep alone
the cats they are walking on the sheets
i'll try to keep in mind if we always tell the truth
there are times that we're bound to disagree
and while i know you're going to do what
you think you have to
i'd much rather be out on the road
back in the bus with you
copyright 1996 Sue Jeffers
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sue jeffers Ohio
Sue Jeffers is a folksinger in the finest sense of
the word, in the tradition of Woody Guthrie
and
all Woody’s musical offspring. Her career has
spanned more than thirty years.
Songs give power to movements. If you believe
in solidarity forever, Sue Jeffers’ Up With the
Masses will inspire you, embolden you, and
connect the struggles of the early 20th century
with our.
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