Тексты песен «Small Fred»
Small Fred - A Dream In The Light
Words and Music by Fred Small Copyright 1994 Pine Barrens Music (BMI) Awake arise all you who slumber Daylight is driving the stars from the sky Every creature on earth one song is lifting From the crab in the tide...
Small Fred - A Modest Proposal (The Long Underwear Song)
I remember well when I was but a child of tender years The day that I discovered the catalog from Sears The people in the pictures they made me stop and stare Who'd have guessed that they'd be dressed in thermal...
Small Fred - All The Time In The World
I have no time for heedless hurry I have no time for the hustler's bluff I have no time for restless worry I have all the time in the world for love I have no time to chase perfection I have no time for the rock of...
Small Fred - Annie
Annie's up at seven on a work day Brewing up a cup of peppermint tea Gathering her papers and lesson plans She grabs her keys Teaching arithmetic and Africa Geology and girl's basketball All the kids in her class Will...
Small Fred - At The Elbe
Well mister I just overheard you talking through your drink How the Russians lie like rugs how they've pushed us to the brink Now sit right here beside me I've an old man's tale to tell How Yanks and Reds were friends...
Small Fred - Big Italian Rose
She was riding on the airline leafing through their magazine They said, "We'll fly you to the homeland that you have never seen" Smiling tourists in the picture back in sunny Italy Said she, "These pretty people don't...
Small Fred - Cranes Over Hiroshima
The baby blinks her eyes as the sun falls from the sky She feels the stings of a thousand fires as the city around her dies Some sleep beneath the rubble, some wake to a different world From the crying babe will grow a...
Small Fred - Crossing The Charles
I guess it must say something That I was the last to know I never saw the signals flashing danger Falling out of love with me Was hard on you I know To wake up in the morning to a stranger. CHORUS: Crossing the Charles...
Small Fred - Death In Disguise
All my life Working at the factory The pay looked mighty good to me When my body was my own Doctor won't look me in the eye My youngest child asks why I won't ever see her grown. CHORUS: Now I can feel the darkness...
Small Fred - Denmark 1943
And it's Eichmann and Himmler are turning the screws The Fuhrer they say grows impatient "How can it be Denmark's Jews still walk free After three years of kind occupation? We will take them like sheep in their beds as...
Small Fred - Diamonds Of Anger
The boy rolls the hoop past the barricade Pushing it fast with a stick that he made from a coathanger The hoop is a wheel of rusted steel from a junkyard bicycle The girl on the corner plays the guitar It's a petrol can...
Small Fred - Dig A Hole In The Ground
You hear so many rumors sometimes you get confused But I read it in Time Magazine and I heard it on the news We'll see dramatic changes in the lifestyle we enjoy If those megatons of atom bombs are actually employed...
Small Fred - Every Man
I was born in the city hospital Torn from darkness into the light First man I saw was the first to hit me First woman I saw said hush don't cry. I played with girls till I was six years old Guys told me you don't want...
Small Fred - Everything Possible
We have cleared off the table, the leftovers saved, Washed the dishes and put them away I have told you a story and tucked you in tight At the end of your knockabout day As the moon sets its sails to carry you to sleep...
Small Fred - Face At The Window
In the stillness of the alley waits a man with an open blade And he hurts the woman badly and within her plants his seed She can't shake the dirt and horror as the seed takes root and grows But the law now claims her...
Small Fred - Father's Song
I remember the man Rising early in the morning Smelling of starch and aftershave Sometimes I would shave beside him With a plastic razor and a cardboard blade And watch his car disppear Into the morning gray. I...
Small Fred - Fifty-Nine Cents
High school daydreams come easy and free When you're a working woman whatcha gonna be? A senator, a surgeon, aim for the heights But the guidance office says lower your sights to CHORUS: Fifty-nine cents for every...
Small Fred - Friends First
I wake up early in the cool of the morning Magenta and purple over Casco Bay Sleepless with yearning reason returning I send you this song like a summer bouquet I want to be CHORUS: Friends first before we are lovers...
Small Fred - Gonna Get A Grant
Ooh I can't get out of bed Let's stay at home instead I just want to play with you all day Good loving gives me a thrill But it don't pay the bills Somehow true love will find a way. CHORUS: Gonna get a grant! Gonna...
Small Fred - Gravity
When gravity's dragging you down Look up So you see yourself stalking the city Staring straight down at your feet You notice the scuff on your shoeshine You avoid all the holes in the street And you pity the drunk in...