Waterboys
A
Girl Called Johnny
Fisherman's Blues
When Ye Go Away
Red Army Blues
The Whole of the Moon
A Man is in Love
Glastonbury Song
Good News
Room to Roam
How
long will I love you
Song from the end of the World
Old England
The
Pan Within
And a Bang on the Ear
World
Party
I
remember johnny -- hey!
johnny come lately
i remember he shoes like a ballerina
a girl called johnny who
changed her name when she
discovered her choice was to
change or to BE changed
I
remember a girl called johnny
black as hell and white as a ghost
don't talk please about life and death'
she'd say 'i've had enough of both'
a girl called johnny who was not scared
they would have torn her to pieces but
who would dare
I
remember a girl called johnny
the train came to town, BOY! she got on it
without looking back, barely a word
if she said goodbye well I never heard
but the noise goes on
the NOISE! The JAZZ!
and the truth is in somebody else's hands
and the house that a girl called johnny built
is now just so much
ashes and sand
I
wish I was a fisherman
tumbling on the sea
far away from dry land
and it's bitter memories
casting out my sweet line
with abandonment and love
no ceiling bearing down on me
save the starry sky above
with light in my head
and you in my arms
I
wish I was the brakeman
on a hurtling fevered train
crashing a-headlong on into the heartland
like a cannon in the rain
with the beating of the sweepers
and the burning of the coal
counting the towns flashing by
and the night that's full of soul
with light in my head
and you in my arms
tomorrow
I will be loosened
from the bonds that hold me fast
with the chains all hung around me
will fall away at last
and on that fine and fateful day
I will take thee in my hand
I will ride on the train
I will be the fisherman
with light in my head
you in my arms
When
ye go away 
Now he has brought down the rain
And the indian summer is through
In the morning they'll be following
Your trail again, dear lady
You ain't calling me to join you
And I'm spoken for anyway
But
I will cry when ye go away
I will cry when ye go away
Your
beauty is familiar
Your voice is like a key
It opens up my soul and
torches up a fire inside of me
Your coat is made of magic
And around your table angels play
I
will cry when ye go away
I will cry when ye go away
Somebody
left his whisky
and the night is very young
I've something to say and I've more to tell
And the words will soon be spilling from my tongue
I will rave and I will ramble
I'll do everything but make you stay
And
I will cry when ye go away
I will cry when ye go away
I will cry when ye go away
I will cry when ye go away
when
I left my home and my family
my mother said to me
son it's not how many
germans you kill that counts
it's how many
people you set free
so i packed my bags
brushed my cap
walked out into the world
seventeen years old
never kissed a girl
i
took the train to Voronezh
that was far as it would go
changed my sacks for a uniform
but my lip against the show
i preyed for mother russia
in the summer of 43
and as we drove the germans back
i really believe
god was listening to me
we
howled into Berlin
tore the smoking buildings down
raised the red flag high
burnt the reichstag brown
i saw my fist american
he looked a lot like me
had the same kind of
farmer's face
said he come from
some place
called Hazard, Tennessee
when
the was was over
my discharge papers came
me and twenty hundred other
went to Stettiner for the train
KIEV said the commissar
from there your own way home
but I never got to kiev
we never came back home
the train when north to the taiga
we were stripped and marched in file
up the great siberian road
miles and miles and miles
dressed in stripes and tatters
in a gulag left to die
all because comrade stalin feared
we'd become too westernized!
used
to live my country
used to be so young
used to believe that life
was the best song ever sung
i would have died
for my country
back in 1945
but now only one thing remains
the brute will to survive
I pictured a rainbow
you held it in your hands
I had flashed
but you saw the plan
I wandered out in the world for years
while you just stayed in your room
I saw the crescent
you saw the Whole of the Moon
you
were there in the turn stiles
with the wind at your heels
you stretched for the stars
and you know how it feels to reach
too HIGH too FAR too SOON
you saw the Whole of the Moon
I
was grounded
while you filled the skies
I was dumbfounded by truth
you cut through lies
I saw the rain dirty valley
you saw Brigadoon
I saw the crescent
you saw the Whole of the Moon
I
spoke about wings
you just flew
I wondered I guessed and I tried
you just know
I sighed
... but you SWOONED!
I saw the crescent
you saw the Whole of the Moon
the
whole of the moon!
unicorns and cannonballs
palaces and piers
trumpets towers and tenements
wide oceans full of tears
flags rags ferryboats
scimitars and scarves
every precious dream and vision
underneath the starts
you climbed on the ladder
with the wind in your sails
you came like a comet
blazing your trail
too HIGH too FAR too SOON
you saw the Whole of the Moon
A man is in Love
how do I know?
He came a walk with me
and he told me so
in a song he sang
and then I knew
a man is in love
with you
A
man is in love
how did I hear?
I heard hime talk too much
whenever you're near
He whispered your name
when his eyes where close
A man is in love
and he knows
A
man is in love
how did I guess?
I figured it out while he was
watching you dress
He'd give you his all
if you'd but agree
A man is love
and he's me
Mike Scott
I
dreamed myself from the sultry plains
to the old green square back in old Maybole
Rode the wind up to Stornaway
paused at the peak, pacified my soul
Caught the bus at the faery fort
made it to the mansion on the Boyne
see I come around to the ancient ways
I took a tip from the Buddha Boy
Chorus:
I
just found God
I just found God
I just found God
where He always was
We came down from the Hill of Dreams
Bernadette, Mother Earth and you and me
through Carraroe, down the wildwood side
blinding out eyes in the shallow seas
Drank fire with the King of the Blues,
plugged in to the Medicine Way
took a long last look at Crazy Horse
push now for a golden age
Chorus:
I
found myself on the roof of the world
just waiting for to get my wings
strange Angel in the changing light
said Brother you forgot something!
My heart beat from the inside out
so lucky just to be alive
can you tell what I'm talking about?
any day now the Sun's gonna rise
Chorus:
There
is a Green Hill far away
I'm going back there one fine day.
Good
News
Drop your guns
and hear the news
the war is won
and we've called a truce
[...and we've called IT truce]
the key is found
and the circle complete
and the higher ground
is beneath our feet
Like the
turn of a page
or a change of gear
a brand new age
is already here
and even while
men pursue their doom
[...and even WILD men pursue their doom]
a magical child
is kicking a womb
I'm preparing
for birth
I'm not the only one
I'm a part of the Earth
I'm a drop of the Sun
I'm in step with the stars
I'm in a league with the land
I'm a functioning part of the Master's Plan!
[...I'm in LEAD with the land
I'm a functioning part of A MASTER PIECE!]
You go yours
and I'll go mine
the many ways we wend
Mnay days
and many ways
ending in one end
Many a wrong
and its uring soung
Many a road
and many an inn
Room to Roam
but only one home
for all the world to win
You go yours
and I'll go mine
and the many many ways we'll wend
Mnay days
and many ways
ending in one end
How
long will I love you
How long will I love you?
As long as stars are above you
and longer if I can
How long will I need you?
As long as the seasons need to
follow their plan
How long will I be with you?
As long as the sea is bound to
wash upon the sand
How long will I want you?
As long as you want me to
and longer by far
How long will I hold you?
As long as your father told you
As long as you are
How long will I give to you?
As long as I live to you
However long you say
How long will I lvoe you?
As long as the stars are above you
and longer if I may
Song
from the end of the World
Here is the smell
of seafood pie
a broken tower
on the open sky
a chain of slands
rolling West
in sight of the house
where we are guests
A ramblid old river
twist through the fields
ancient names
imprinted on shields
gifts arrive
for a baby girl
born a queen
at the end of the world
Furious music
from an open door
the sound of feet
beating on a stone flood
always the wind
always the form
of an elder God
hooved and horned
The head of the mountain
lost in a cloud
a country woman
soft and proud
into the bay
the horses swirl
for we come to the sea
at the end of the world
man looks
up on a yellow sky
and the rain turns to rust in his eye
rumours of his health are lies
old england is dying
his clothes
are a dirty shade of blue
and his ancient shoes worn through
he steals from me and he lies to you
old england is dying
still he
sings an empire song
still he keeps his navy strong
and he sticks his flag where it ill belongs
old england is dying
you're
asking what makes me sigh now
what it is makes me shudder so well
I just FREEZE in the wind and I'm
numb from the pummelin' of the snow
that falls from the high in the yellow skies
down on where the well loved flag of
england flies
where homes
are warm and mothers sigh
where criminals are televised politicians
fraternize
journalist are dignified and everyone is
civilized
and children stare with Heroin eyes
Old England!
evening
had fallen
the swans are singing
the last of Sunday's bells is ringing
the wind in the trees is sighing
and old england is Dying
come with
me
on a journey beneath the skin
come with me
on a journey under the skin
we will look together
for the Pan within
close your
eyes
breathe slow and we'll begin
close your eyes
breathe slow and we will begin
to look together
for the Pan within
swing your
hips
loose your head and let it spin
swing your hips
loose your head and let is spin
and we will look together for the Pan
within
close your
eyes
breathe slow we'll begin
close your eyes
breathe slow and we will begin
to look together
for the Pan Within
put your
face to my window
breathe a night full of treasure
the wind is delicious
sweet and wild with the promise of
pleasure
the stars are alive
and nights
like these
were born to be
sanctified by you and me
lovers thieves fools and pretenders
and all we gotta do is surrender
come with
me on a journey
under the skin
come with me on a journey under the skin
and we will look together
for the Pan within
Lindsay
was my first love she was in my class
I would have loved to take her out but I was too shy to ask
The fullness of my feeling was never made clear
But I send her my love with a bang on the ear
Nora was
my girl when I first was in a group
I can still see her to this day, stirring chicken soup
Now she's living in Australia working for an auctioneer
But I send her my love with a bang on the ear
Deborah
broke my heart and I the willing fool
I fell for her one summer on the road to Liverpool
I thought it was forever but it was over in a year (oh dear)
But I give her my love with a bang on the ear
The home
I made with Bela became a house of pain
We weathered it together bound by a ball and chain
Is started up in Fife, and ended up in tears (oh dear)
But I send her my love with a bang on the ear
Chrystal
was a rover from CANADA she hailed
We crossed swords in San Francisco we both lived to tell the tale
I dont know now where she is but oh if she was here
I'd give her my love with a bang on the ear
So my woman
of the hearthfire, harbour of my soul
I watch you lightly sleeping and I sense a dream that doesn't fold (like gold)
You to me are treasure, you to me are dear
So I'll give you my love with a bang on the ear
well it's
got nothing to do with anything that is real
you just believe in it and it's true
you can soothe like an angel or sigh like a saint
you can dream it and see it through
you will
live to see a sea of lights
sparkling on the face of a pearl
find [climb??] your own beat
find a new streak
get yourself along with the world party party
now you
can build for yourself a cool place in the sand
and you think it's [??] it's mighty fine
you've
got dust in your eyeballs
you've got mud in your mouth
but it's your head it ain't mine
i've got a madman of my own to contend with
cursing in the cave of my skull
turn the
other cheek
find a new streak
get yourself along with world party party
now [but??]
i've heard a rumor of a golden age
somewhere back along the line
maybe a
dream that [i/was???] whispered
or heard it in a spell
it was something to do with the sign of the times
and the only thing that I remember
is the summer like a pretty girl
shimmers
and shines
moving in time
shaking to the beat of the heart of the world party party.....
shaking to the beat of the...
