Lyrical Response

[SinceThe70s]

We've got a gorilla for sale
Magilla Gorilla for sale
Won't you buy him
Take him home and try him
Gorilla for sale
 

[WhoTom]

I don't feel safe in this world no more
I don't want to die in a nuclear war
I want to sail away to a distant shore
And make like an Apeman

 

I'm an Apeman, I'm an Ape Apeman
No, I'm an Apeman
Well, I'm a King Kong man, I'm a Voo-Doo man
No, I'm an Apeman

'Cause compared to the sun that sits in the sky
Compared to the clouds as they roll by
Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies
I am an Apeman

 

[Gray Beard]

Ride, captain ride upon your mystery ship
Be amazed at the friends you have here on your trip
Ride captain ride upon your mystery ship
On your way to a world that others might have missed

 

Seventy-three men sailed up from the San Francisco Bay
Rolled off of their ship, and here's what they had to say
"We're callin' everyone to ride along to another shore
We can laugh our lives away and be free once more"

 

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Saturday night and you're still hangin' around 
Tired of living in your one horse town 
You'd like to find a little hole in the ground 
For awhile...

 

So you go to the village in your tie dyed jeans 
And you stare at the junkies and the closet queens 
It's like some pornographic magazine 
And you smile

 

Captain Jack will get you high tonight 
And take you to your special island 
Captain Jack will get you by tonight 
Just a little push, and you'll be smilin'

[WhoTom]

She had sweethearts a-plenty, and men of high degree
But none but Jack the sailor, her true love ever be
Oh her true love ever be

Jackie's gone a sailing, with trouble on his mind
He's left his native country and his darling girl behind
Oh his darling girl behind

She went down to a tailor shop and dressed in man's array
She climbed on board a vessel to convey herself away
Oh convey herself away

Before you get on board sir, your name we'd like to know
She smiled on her countenance, they call me Jack-A-Roe
Oh they call me Jack-A-Roe

 

Edited August 12, 2019 by WhoTom

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

We come on the Sloop John B
My grandfather and me
Around Nassau town we did roam
Drinking all night
Got into a fight
Well I feel so broke up
I want to go home

So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the main sail sets
Call for the Captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I want to go home, yeah yeah
Well I feel so broke up
I want to go home

[WhoTom]

Went to see the captain, strangest I could find,
Laid my proposition down, laid it on the line.
I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels,
But I would slave to learn the way to sink your ship of fools.

 

Ship of fools on a cruel sea, ship of fools sail away from me.
It was later than I thought, when I first believed you,
Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools.

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
Sold in the market down in New Orleans
Scarred old slaver knows he's doin' all right
Hear him whip the women just around midnight

 

Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good
Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should

[PastaJoe]

I've been run down and I've been lied to.
And I don't know why, I let that mean woman make me a fool.
She took all my money, wrecks my new car.
Now she's with one of my good time buddies,
They're drinkin in some cross-town bar.

 

Sometimes I feel, sometimes I feel,
Like I been tied to the whippin' post.
Tied to the whippin' post, tied to the whippin' post.
Good Lord, I feel like I'm dyin'.

[WhoTom]

Crack that whip
Give the past the slip
Step on a crack
Break your momma's back
When a problem comes along
You must whip it
Before the cream sits out too long
You must whip it
When something's going wrong
You must whip it

 

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Guess it's just another dream 
That's slipping away 
Each time I fall asleep 
It seems, drifting away 
Just as you have touched my heart 
Babe I wake and we're apart 
Yeah and it's slipping away

[WhoTom]

Before you slip into unconsciousness
I'd like to have another kiss
Another flashing chance at bliss
Another kiss, another kiss

 

The days are bright and filled with pain
Enclose me in your gentle rain
The time you ran was too insane
We'll meet again, we'll meet again

[Gray Beard]

Just one last kiss
Before I walk out the door
I'm gonna hold you tighter
Than I ever did before

 

And I, I never promised you
The things you promised me
And I, I can't justify
The way it's gotta be

 

And the good times are the best times
The bad times fade away
The good times are forever
But now, baby, the last time is today

 

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Well I told you once and I told you twice
But ya never listen to my advice
You don't try very hard to please me
With what you know it should be easy

Well this could be the last time
This could be the last time
Maybe the last time
I don't know, oh no, oh no

[The Plastic Cup]

I like the way your sparkling earrings lay
Against your skin so brown
And I want to sleep with you in the desert night
With a billion stars all around

 

'Cause I got a peaceful easy feelin'
And I know you won't let me down
'Cause I'm already standin'
On the ground

 

And I found out a long time ago
What a woman can do to your soul
Aw but she can't take you any way
You don't already know how to go

 

And I got a peaceful easy feelin'
And I know you won't let me down
'Cause I'm already standin'
On the ground

[WhoTom]

I'd like to see both of us
Fall deeply in love
I'd like to see you in the raw
Under the stars above

 

So boogie on reggae woman
What is wrong with you
Boogie on reggae woman
What you tryin' to do

 

[SinceThe70s]

I don't want no tutti-frutti, no lollipop 
Come on, baby, just rock, rock, rock

[Gray Beard]

I got a gal, named Sue, she knows just what to do
I got a gal, named Sue, she knows just what to do
She rock to the East, she rock to the West
She is the gal that I love best

 

Tutti frutti, oh rootie
Tutti frutti, oh rootie, ooh
Tutti frutti, oh rootie
Tutti frutti, oh rootie
Tutti frutti, oh rootie
Whop bop a loo bop a lop boom boom!

 

I got a gal, named Daisy, she almost drives me crazy
Got a gal, named Daisy, she almost drives me crazy
She knows how to love me, yes indeed
Boy you don't know what she do to me

Edited August 15, 2019 by Gray Beard

[SinceThe70s]

soup lines
free loaves of bread
5lb blocks of cheese
bags of groceries
social security
has run out on you and me
we do whatever we can
gotta duck when the **** hits the fan
 

Doobie do ***** ***** say what, yeah!

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

I've got holes in my shoes
And I'm way overdue
Down payment blues

 

Get myself a steady job
Some responsibility
Can't even feed my cat
On social security
Hiding from the rent man
Oh it makes me want to cry
Sheriff knocking on my door
Ain't it funny how the time flies