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Blue Highway
05:48
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Blue Highway
Shadows dance on the rose
Traveling down this winding road
To return going home
Along the Blue Highway
Source of life, gift of love
To the sea she must run
To return from above
Along the Blue Highway
Along the Blue Highway, my friends
Along the Blue Highway
To return back again
Along the Blue Highway
Ides of March rushing down
Flooding out river towns
Life and death goes round and round
Along the Blue Highway
Along the Blue Highway, my friends
Along the Blue Highway
To return back again
Along the Blue Highway
Black and white, red and yellow
Blue above, green below
All are one within her flow
Along the Blue Highway
Along the Blue Highway, my friends
Along the Blue Highway
To return back again
Along the Blue Highway
Words & music by Larry Long
Copyright Larry Long Publishing 1982 BMI, Renewed 2018
All Rights Reserved.
www.larrylong.org
**Blue Highway was first released by Larry Long on cassette and vinyl through Flying Fish Records in 1984 on a collection entitled Run For Freedom. Blue Highway was reissued by Larry Long on CD in 1997 through Rounder Records on a collection entitled Run For Freedom / Sweet Thunder.
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2. |
My Love For You
03:25
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My Love For You
You will always be my friend
I am yours until the end
If I could I would start again
My love for you
Beautiful in every way
In my heart you remain
Of my joy and of my pain
My love for you
To be born to be set free
To be all that you can be
Through this life for the world to see
My love for you
Dreads of color, face a glow
You will always find a home
Here with me wherever I roam
My love for you
I will never turn away
From your love on my dying day
These words you will hear me say
My love for you
With each note that takes flight
Through this world of candlelight
Peace on earth for the world tonight
My love for you
Words & music by Larry Long
Copyright Larry Long 2018 / BMI
All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.
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3. |
Puerto Vallarta
03:21
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Puerto Vallarta
Puerto Vallarta
Such a beautiful night
As blue as the ocean
In dew-drops of light
South from Alaska
To Banderas Bay
Lovers embracing
Along the malecon walkway
Puerto Vallarta
Such a beautiful night
Puerto Vallarta
Streets of cobblestone
Wind down from the mountains
To the river below
A rooster is crowing
Alone on the hill
Morning has broken
So quiet and still
Puerto Vallarta
Such a beautiful night
Puerto Vallarta
Cathedral bells
Ring for the dolphins
The humpback whale
From north of the border
To burn beneath the sun
Where the trabajadores
Ends up with none
Puerto Vallarta
Such a beautiful night
Puerto Vallarta
El mercado now full
Mi mujare linda
Bialando juntos we go
Clouds white and wispy
The pelicans dance
Over the ocean
Diving down in a flash
Puerto Vallarta
Such a beautiful night
Puerto Vallarta
Dulce amore
You look so beautiful tonight
Puerto Vallarta
Mi amore
You look so beautiful tonight
Dulce amore
Such a beautiful night
Words & music by Larry Long
Copyright Larry Long 2018/ BMI
All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.
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4. |
Slow Night
03:41
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Slow Night
Slow night
My baby wants a slow night
Don’t want to start no fight
She’s in the mood for a slow night
She don’t want to play my fiddle
With a wiggle in the middle
Not even for a little
She’s in the mood for a slow night
Slow night
My baby wants a slow night
Don’t want to start no fight
She’s in the mood for a slow night
She don’t want to ride my cycle
Not even for a nickel
Guess I’m in a pickle
She’s in the mood for a slow night
Slow night
My baby wants a slow night
Don’t want to start no fight
She’s in the mood for a slow night
Oh no, my baby’s sleeping
Look at me I’m just weeping
Oh no, my baby’s sleeping
It’s going to be a slow night
Think I’ll go watch the TV
Read a book or some magazine
Take my dog for a long walk
All the way about the block
Slow night
My baby wants a slow night
Don’t want to start no fight
She’s in the mood for a slow night
Don’t you know that I love you
Don’t you know that I want you
Don’t you know that I need you
It’s you and only you
Words & music by Larry Long
Copyright Larry Long Publishing 2018 / BMI
All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.
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5. |
Chicky Chicky Boom
04:14
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Chicky-Chicky-Boom
Worked in the mines
Before the union
Was organized
All I got paid
A dollar and a dime
Twelve hours wages
The harder I worked
The more the boss man made
Chicky-Chicky-Boom
Cut pine knots
To start a fire
Tapping with his third leg
Down on the floor
Singing and praying
It would be better
Everybody listen
A whole lot more
Chicky-Chicky-Boom
On Sunday morning
Rode in the wagon
Kerosene lantern
Hanging on the side
Walk behind the wagon
Just to come a running
To get ahead
Got to learn to walk behind
Chicky-Chicky-Boom
Had to go to school
Over in the bottoms
Just for fun
The `Do-Right Cafe'
We would jump rope
To `Skip To The Lou, My Darling'
Go around the sunshine
Each & every day
Chicky-Chicky-Boom
Get back track
Grease in the bucket
Corn bread and white meat
Each and every day
Times are so much better
When I come along
That's about all
This old man has to say
Chicky-Chicky-Boom
Words & music by Larry Long
Copyright Larry Long 1995 / BMI, Renewed 2018
Collectively written with students from Oakman, Alabama.
All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.
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6. |
I Love You
05:54
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I Love You
She was rich to the core
A friend to the poor
I love you
From her heart she would give
So others might live
I love you
Some people have
So many have not
Enough to get by
The dream lives
The dreamer dies
I love you
Often she’d read
Of people in need
I love you
God has many names
To their doorstep she came
I love you
To fall through the cracks
To never get back
Without a hand to hold
Like Lazarus of old
I love you
Mothers unwed
No place for their heads
I love you
To get a degree
Childcare they need
I love you
One plate full at a time
Until all children find
The love, the comfort of home
To be safe, and never alone
I love you
Surrender your self
To love
Someone else
To share
In love
Not control
To see in each face
The whole human race
I love you
To see the gift
Not someone at risk
I love you
Wonders made real
Through God’s grace revealed
Through human compassion combined
To share this world as divine
I love you
Words & music by Larry Long
Copyright Larry Long 2018 / BMI
All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.
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Larry Long Minneapolis, Minnesota
Larry Long is a chip off the old block of American hardwoods, a spoken
word poet, a singer-songwriter, rouser,
seeker, storyteller and
conservationist. Well traveled across the world, wherever he
goes, he celebrates people and places in song.
Larry Long is a recipient of the prestigious In The Spirit of Crazy Horse Award for his work in forgotten communities.
www.larrylong.org
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