Тексты песен «Levon Helm»

The foreman touched the cold steel lines The rail bed was frozen with ice In the distance an engine was keeping good time The steam whistle moaned just twice Down in the cut past the old Tressel bridge Twelve fine...

Listen now children a story I'll tell Of a woman they called Anna Lee She had a fine son and she raised him up well And a daughter as lovely as she I'll return to you, dear, in the dimming of day As the sparrow returns...

Every man will see the day That his hopes are dashed away No word can bring him peace No man can set him free Some will ramble far from home Work their fingers to the bone Some will numb their hearts with wine To...

False hearts have been my downfall, pretty women have been my craze I know my false hearted lover she has sent me to my lonesome grave Baggy clothes dropping off my body and the wolves howling around my door May the...

Feelin' good, feelin' good All the money in the world spent on feelin' good A wino met me in the street He said, "Help me find some Sneakin' Pete Help me brother, I wish you would I feel so bad and I wanna feel good"...

Walking along on a path in the mountains I saw a bird flying way up high Gold were it's wings in that time of the morning Flashing at me as they flew through the sky Its beauty was such that I felt I must have it...

Oh, I got me a woman she's a pretty good woman at that We live with a monkey and a Chinese acrobat She calls me 'Tex', makes me wear a cowboy hat But I don't care she's a pretty good woman at that Nothing in the world...

I worked the land to raise a family Til I was weary to the bone But hard labor never bothered me Lord it's all I've ever known Too many seasons are calamity And too much ant to rest the whole night long I'm half the...

Life's a strain, painful thing To be overcome We mark the nights by our triumphs Suffers everyone But hold them near Keep them dear Don't be ashamed Triumphs of the world On heaven's pearls On heaven's pearls

I wish I knew how it would feel to be free I wish I could break all the chains holding me I wish I could say all the things that I should say Say 'em loud, say 'em clear For the whole round world to hear. I wish I...

There's a hundred-thousand Frenchmen in New Orleans In New Orleans there are Frenchmen everywhere But your house could fall down Your baby could drown Wouldn't none of those Frenchmen care Everybody gather 'round...

Little birds are singing all around me, on every bush and vine, My pleasures would be doubled if I could call you mine. As I've sat here the whole night through till now it's a breakin' day, I'm awaitin' for an answer,...

Oh the poor old dirt farmer, He's lost lost all his corn And now where's the money To pay off his loan? He lost all his corn Can't pay off his loan He lost all his corn. Well the poor old dirt farmer, He only grows...

Well, the single girl, yeah, the single girl The single girl, she always dresses so fine She dresses so fine She always dresses so fine But the married girl, oh, the married girl The married girl, she wears just any...

You know the girl you love she don't treat you right sometimes You know the girl you love she don't treat you right sometimes Well, that's the stuff you gotta watch because your girl is a liar. You know, the girl you...

Cold iron shackles And ball and chain Listen to the whistle Of the evenin' train You know you Bound to wind up dead If you don't head back To Tennessee Jed Rich man step on My poor head When you get back

Oh father tonight they say you are, To wed another bride, That you will hold her in your arms, Where my dear mother died. They say her name is Mary too, The name my mother bore, But Father is she kind and true, Like...

The hours sad I left a maid A lingering farewell taking Whose sighs and tears my steps delayed I thought her heart was breaking In hurried words her name I blest I breathed the vows that bind me And to my heart in...

I was born on this mountain a long long time ago Before they knocked down the timber and stripped mined all the coal When you rose up in the morning before it was light To go down in that dark hole and come back up at...

Early in the morning When the church bells toll The choir's gonna sing And the hearse will roll On down to the graveyard Where it's cold and gray And then the sun's gonna shine Through the shadows When I go away Don't...