Medicine show

Yeah

it's been written in stone

you're gone and you're not coming home

but I know that it's true

and there's really not a lot I can do

but baby

I'm still holding on to you

I'm still holding on to you



Wow yeah

you know what people say

they say the man gives a little

and then he takes it away

but I know that it's true

and there's really not a lot I can do

but baby

I'm still holding on to you

I'm still holding on to you

yeah I'm still holding on 

(guitar)



I said last night

I dreamed they came for my soul

yeah the room was hot

and her skin was cold

Oh no no no

and I heard them called my name



I'll still be waiting for you

	still holding on to you

oh carry me down that row

	still holding on to you

down where the angels won't go

	still holding on to you

I'll still be waiting for you

	still holding on to you

oh carry me down that row

	still holding on to you

down where the angels won't go

	still holding on to you

My baby wants to go the place

where she first made love

My baby wants to go the place

where she first made love

well take her down to the liquor store

wipe out everything that came before

what else can I do for daddy's girl



My baby wants to wear the ring 

that her mama wore

My baby wants to wear the ring 

that her mama wore

oh well I'll take you all over

this God forsaken world

cover your pretty neck with pearls

what else can I do for daddy's girl

yeah come come come wow 

ah ah ah

I believe...

(guitars)



My baby wants the kind of man 

that married ma

My baby wants the kind of man 

that married ma

come on baby don't you know

gonna take you where you never been before

what else can I do for daddy's girl

yeah



you know that I'm tired of feeling horny

and I love you so

gonna do you like you never been done before

what else can I do to daddy's girl

come on

what else can I do to daddy's girl

yeah yeah yeah

to daddy's girl

well yeah yeah oh to daddy's girl

Someone set fire at the field last night

turned himself in this morning

No, I don't think you knew him

but that's not the point

ah ha ha ha



Well the cops they asked

why he'd done it

And they fastened up the cuffs

He looked at what he'd done and he said

"guess I just don't know"

No, I don't know 



Chorus:

But you can feel in your heart

feel it in your soul

feel it go around till you

loose control

now there's just a few things 

that can't be told

don't you feel it burn

don't you feel it burn

oh don't you feel it burn



There was this friend that you and I had

there were a few things he believed in

and then one by one he found some cause

now he's not so sure

No he's not that sure



But you can feel in your heart

feel in your soul

feel it go allround till you

loose control

now there's just a few things 

that can't be told

don't you feel it burn

don't you feel it burn

oh don't you feel it burn



I woke up alone this morning

I looked around the room

Someday it's gonna be hell to pay

I know

yeah I know

It's gonna be hell

to pay I know



Oh you can feel in your heart

feel in your soul

feel it go allround till you

loose control

now there's just a few things 

that can't be told

don't you feel it burn

don't you feel it burn

oh don't you feel it burn

oh don't you feel it burn

oh don't you feel it burn

Now oh wow ow woh woh ah ah ah ah

Do you feel it

Ah Ah Ah Ah

Armed with an empty gun

and no one to call my bluff

the guardsmen at the border

were afraid to play it rough

I was armed with an empty gun

I was armed with an empty gun

yeah



I was armed with an empty gun

and nothing to get in my way

my baby aits on the doorstep

her mother begs her to stay

my head is pounding with fever

and I'm too weary to run

my fingers are limp on the trigger

cause I'm armed with an empty gun

I was armed with an empty gun

(guitar)



Armed with an empty gun

I was stuck in Santa Fe

this man says What are you holding

Let me put it this way

I said At night I go to sleep

and in the morning I waken

he said I think I know you

I said I think you're mistaken



gun gun gun gun



Well I was lookin for real persuasion

then just as I'd begun

he looked in my hand

he walked off away

I was armed with an empty gun

I was armed with an empty gun

I was armed with an empty gun yeah wow

yeah I couldn't hit it sideways baby

oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh yeah

(repeat line 4 times)

If you ever saw me

walking around

swear I'd try to disappear

I wouldn't make a sound

Then something

got me on the run

it's gonna be the last time

I let you hold my gun



Your bullet's got my name on

ah ah

Your bullet's got my name on it

gotta run away

run run away

(guitars)



I had a dream

I was all alone

I had a mouth

but I couldn't speak

Then something

tried to turn my head

It was someone just like you

had me by the throat again



Your bullet's got my name on

ah ah

Your bullet's got my name on it

gotta run away    



Your bullet's got my name on it

gotta run away

run run away

(guitars)



I thought I knew the answer

It was just a clue

Another trigger I couldn't pull

And then something

came in my room last night

they aimed

they fired

and I got lucky



Your bullet's got my name on

ah ah

Your bullet's got my name on it

gotta run away

run run away

I have a page one story buried in my yardI have a troubled mind

I'm going down to the medicine showIf I have to choose between doing

penance and doing timeI'm going down to the medicine show

I got a one way ticket on the 8:06to the outskirts of town

I'm going down to the medicine showI'm gonna say "Hey conductor don't you

stop till you hear that gypsy sound"I'm going down to the medicine show

And it's so hard to be a reasonable man v

when you stop finding reasons for everything

But tonight baby I'm gonna find some answersWhen I go down to the medicine show

I'm gonna find me that gypsy girlthat likes to dance and cry

When I go down to the medicine showWe're gonna lay our burden down

under this lonesome gupsy skyWhen I go down to the medicine show

Oh keep your hands on the shades baby

no one gonna care

when the moon goes dead

oh I might have said something sometime

but I don't care what I might have said

we're gonna take it

move it     

sand it down

we're gonna send it back from where it came

oh yeah yeah

gonna be all right

it's gonna be all right

I feel it, want it, know it

yeah I say yeah yeah yeah

it's gonna be all right

(guitar)



I got some John Coltrane on the stereo baby

make it feel all right

I got some fine wine in the freezer mama

I know what you like

I gonna take it, turn it, set it loose

we gonna learn about love on a three ply rug

hah                   

Gonna be all right

It's gonna be all right

I feel it

gonna be all right

(guitars,guitars,guitars)



Don't tell me anymore bout the

civilized world baby

it's just you and me

Oh what do I gotta do to show you

the way that it's gonna be

Gonna take it, move it, [sand] it down

gonna send it back to burn in flame

gonna be all right

it's gonna be all right

yeah

shhh it's gonna be all right   

oh yeah yeah yeah all right



I got some John Coltrane on the stereo baby

make it feel all right

I got some fine wine in the freezer mama

I know what you like

I got some John Coltrane on the stereo baby

make it feel all right

I got some fine wine in the freezer mama

I know what you like

I got some John Coltrane on the stereo baby

make it feel all right

I said a man works hard all day

he can do what he wants to   

At night

come on, come on...

(hopefully crowd goes wild here)   



she said Hold me tight

I don't think that's what you want

I don't think that's what you want

She said Hold me tight

I don't think that's what you want

Don't think that's what you want

Hold me tight, hold me tight

hold me tight, hold me tight

Gonna be all right

Mathew (with the pugnose)

caught me with his sister in the wheatfield.

Got a couple of buddies

Tied me up and threw me in his oldsmobile.

I said : "Mathew are you crazy ?"

As he started closing in for the kill

Mathew slowed the olds to 10.

and left me here to die in Merritville



There's a game they play in the summertime

There's a game they play when it's hot outside

And I wonder why they left me here in

Merritville



Sally (with the narrow hips)

cut the ropes and said she would clear my head

Made a path out in the back

and led me all the way to her daddy's shed

I said : "Sally, Who'd beleive that we we'd have to com so far for a thrill.

Sally let me got that night,

weak, tired, and spent out in Merritville



There's a game they play in the summertime

There's a game they play when it's hot outside

And I wonder why they left me here in

Merritville



William (with the scarlet robe)

Stopped me as I styumbled down the road today.

He said, "On your knees, boy,

it's time you learned the right way to pray".

I said, "William, I had no idea that the Lord has such a will".

William drove his point across 

and let me die here to burn in Merritville.