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When I’m Drinkin’
(TANI)
I’m sorry Baby
That I said that about your sis
You know I love her –and your mother
They are such a source of bliss
Hardly apropos –yes I know
My words landed with a hiss
Hey, drinkin’ always makes me act like this
When I’m drinkin’ –I ain’t thinking
I start blurting out the feelings that most folks would hide away
When the liquor’s talking –I should get walking
Some things I say are shocking
When I’m drinkin’ -I ain’t thinkin’
but I believe every word I say
Hey, hey bartender
I shouldn’t have heckled that band last night
Those guys were so bad –and I must add
They couldn’t sing or play or write
I said some things –took some swings
Added fire to the fight
Hey drinkin’ always makes me feel I’m right
When I’m drinkin’ –I ain’t thinking
I start blurting out the feelings that most folks would hide away
When the liquor’s flowin’ –I should be goin’
Before my other side starts showin’
When I’m drinkin’ -I ain’t thinkin’
but I believe every word I say
Liquor never made me say a thing I did not feel
But it made me say a lot of things I wish I’d not revealed
Solo over Chorus
I’m sorry darlin’
I don’t express my love enough
But I do dear –and it’s just fear
That makes saying it so rough
My brain takes a time out –I spill my guts out
With a shot of the hard stuff
Drinkin’ always helps me loosen up
When I’m drinkin’ –I ain’t thinking
I start blurting out the feelings that I usually hide away
Through my devotion –to potent potions
I’m in touch with my emotions
When I’m drinkin’ -I ain’t thinkin’ but you can believe every word I say
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2. |
Fields Of Green
03:11
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Fields of Green
(Ken Owen, Paul Griffiths & Maurice Tani)
That night that I left,
I could see my breath,
By the light of a thousand stars.
A thousand stars.
Blinded by dreams,
Sensational schemes,
I bid thee my fondest farewell,
“Fare Thee Well.”
Lost were your blue-sky days.
Lost were your fields of green.
For something I’d only seen,
In a dream, in a dream
My travels were long,
Behind me was gone,
With one more horizon to go.
Always one more.
But as far as I went
I was never content
With the life I found out there
Grasping at air
Lost were your blue-sky days.
Lost were your fields of green.
For something I’d only seen,
In a dream, in a dream
Yours was the breath I longed for on my neck
The warmth of your lips on my cheek.
The lover’s touch I seek –in the morn’
That night black as coal,
I drifted back home,
By the light from a thousand stars.
A thousand stars.
I was young, you were right.
I was blind to the light
And the things I could not see,
Now I see.
Home in your blue-sky days.
Home in your fields of green.
Like nothing I’ve ever seen,
In a dream, in a dream.
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3. |
Nadine
04:09
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4. |
Three Flights To L.A.
04:22
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Three Flights to LA
(Tani)
Coffee – with cream
She thumbs – a worn magazine
Pools of – Cabin light
Shade up – She stares in the night
She smells him in her clothes
She tastes the ache and feels the bite
She's Venus in repose tonight
Three flights to LA
Magick – her dear
He made it – perfectly clear
Do what – thou will
was his – license to kill
Deafened by the hum
Magick faded as magick can
Deviating from the plan
Three flights to LA
They could have made it big
All light -no heat from Augustine
She's fingering the figurine
-tonight -in flight
The damage on the ground
Seems old and scarred -beyond regrets
The hissing air and sound of jets
-in flight -tonight
Angel - cool gray
Etches - his exquisite decay
on a Small screen in- real time
Returns – to the scene of the crime
The coast glitters below
Reveals its shape like beads and pearls
Embroidered bays Van Gogh light swirls
Three flights to LA
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5. |
Twisted
03:11
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She Twisted My Lies into Truth
(Tani)
Chorus
She twisted (Twisted) Twisted my lies
She twisted my lies into truth
She saw through (Saw through)
She saw through my lies
And she twisted my lies into truth
I wove a web. A beautiful web
A web of deception and lies
It was a thing to behold To watch it unfold
Till it lead me to my demise
Chorus
Solos
All of my lies, My sweet silver lies
So smooth and so round on the tongue
I told her that she was the woman for me
It was the sweetest song I’d ever sung
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6. |
I Think Of You
04:13
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I Think of You, You Think of Him
(Ken Owen- Maurice Tani)
I knew you when -he left you, then as your
whole world crumbled apart,
I wanted my heart
To be the one to make you whole again.
But we both knew for me with you
thereʼd only be room as a friend.
And in the end
thereʼd just be one more broken heart to mend.
(CHORUS)
When the lights go down
and thereʼs no one around
I’m deep inside my head and feelin’ grim
I think of you, you think of him.
I think of you thinking of him
It is so wrong –That you should belong
To someone that treats you that way
and yet you stay
and still I pray you’ll summon the strength one day
I bidded my time –till you’d be mine
But the time never came
But still the flame
Blackens my heart and burns my soul away
(CHORUS)
When the lights go down
and thereʼs no one around
I’m deep inside my head and feelin’ grim
I think of you, you think of him.
I think of you thinking of him
(BRIDGE)
I hate to do what I need to do
But I’m only thinking of what’s best for you
And I’ll hate myself in the morning when the cryin’ time is through
But I never will be over loving you
My dreams were sand, slipped through your hand
A few grains on an endless beach
But unto the breach
My dear friends, I’d step again
(CHORUS)
When the lights go down
and thereʼs no one around
I’m deep inside my head and feelin’ grim
I think of you, you think of him.
I think of you…
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7. |
New Dress
04:20
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New Dress
(Tani)
It was a new day - at the edge of town
I pulled up to the sign by the light of the rising sun
And with a new brush and some old paint
I lowered the population here by one
I’m painting my new dress red
As dark as the color of blood in the pale moonlight
My new dress is red -tonight -tonight
I’d painted myself - into a corner
There was nowhere to go in that town of brown & grey
Now I’m sketching - my horizon
It’s wide and it’s straight and it never fades away
Chorus
It’s a still night –in a still life
I’m cleaning my brushes in a bucket of kerosene
It’s a new day –in a new town
A match in the bucket and I have my slate wiped clean
Chorus
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8. |
Red Wine
05:32
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Red Wine
(Mario DeSio)
I’m out of sorts
And the rain only adds to it
Just listening to this music and driftin’
It’s so beautiful here
I see how men get lost
Among all these bottles of amber and blue
People are talking
People are laughing
People don’t bother me tonight
If I lost you I know
If I lost you I know
I can always find you at the bottom of a glass of red wine
I’m writing
On a red napkin
Cause that’s all I do in a bar
It’s not that I’m afraid
And it’s not that I’m grasping
It’s just so easy to feel you in this place
So live your life
Make your choices
Fight your battles or you get lost
Chorus
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9. |
Walk On By
02:40
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Walk On By
(Bacharach-David)
If you see me walking down the street
And I start to cry each time we meet
Walk on by, walk on by
Make believe -that you don't see the tears
Just let me grieve
in private 'cause each time I see you
I break down and cry
Walk on by… -and walk on by… -and walk by
I just can't get over losing you
And so if I seem broken and blue
Walk on by, walk on by
Foolish pride -Is all that I have left
So let me hide
The tears and the sadness you gave me
When you said goodbye
Walk on by… -and walk on by… -and walk by
SOLO
Walk on by, walk on by
Foolish pride
Is all that I have left
So let me hide
The tears and the sadness you gave me
When you said goodbye
Walk on by… -and walk on by… -and walk by
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10. |
Blue Line
06:48
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Blue Line
(Tani)
Blue –Take the blue line downtown
Blue –Take the blue line downtown
Ain’t no sinner without a future
Ain’t no saint without a past
Salvation’s on sale and the deals are going fast
Big Jimmy always said, “It’s good to be king”
He had his fingers deep in everything
A taste of this, a little piece of that
Before you know it a man gets fat
Big Jimmy took pride in the good things in life
The house, the car, the boat, the young trophy wife
And as a tribute to his personal flair
He had a statue of himself built down in St Mark’s Square
Blue –Take the blue line downtown
_Big Jimmy didn’t go unnoticed upstate
_and caught the eye of one Louie the Great
who felt that this was something he might need to contain
So Louie called his right hand man, Rollo Fontaine
Louie said “Rollo, go check this guy out”
“and if we need to take him down just keep my name out”
Rollo headed down state the very next day -Jimmy
Wasn’t gonna like what Rollo had to say
Rollo met with Jimmy at his bar the next night
Jimmy could smell something wasn’t quite right. Rollo
didn’t like Big Jimmy right from the start
And set out to take Jimmy’s little kingdom apart
Ch
_Big Jimmy woke up just across the state line
_The flashlight in his face was not a good sign
He held an empty bottle of Cuervo Gold
And the girl beside him looked about 12 years old
_The troopers pulled Big Jimmy out of his car
_They asked him “Jimmy, do you know where you are?”
Jimmy tried but found he was too high to walk
And the teenage girl was too eager to talk
Blue –Take the blue line downtown
_Big Jimmy’s trial’s a short and ugly affair
Louie and Rollo made a point to be there
_They spared no effort or expense to supply
The finest judge & jury that money could buy
_Big Jimmy knew it wasn’t going his way
_The case was closed before it opened that day
Witnesses to things that Jimmy couldn’t recall
And a teenage girl who swore to it all
Ch w/solo
_The sparks are flying down at St Mark’s Square
_Dust and smoke and racket fill the air
_They’re busting concrete up and cutting through the steel
_The king is dead and there’s a brand new deal
_Big change has come to Jimmy’s former domain
There’s a new boss in town named Rollo Fontaine
_Big Jimmy’s outta stir and workin’ upstate
as the new right hand to one Louis the Great
Ch
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11. |
Happy Hour
03:18
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Happy Hour
(Lyrics by Ken Owen, Melody by Maurice Tani)
All day long there’s been one thing one my mind,
the sound that work bell makes at quitting time.
It lets me know that time will soon be ours,
when I see you tonight at Happy Hour.
Each night I head down to our favorite place,
to wait for your smile and your warm embrace.
I’ll try to hide my worries and my cares,
no one will never know my silent prayers.
I’ll save a chair for you, just like I always do,
in this place where love began for you and me.
When the jukebox plays our song, I know it wont be long,
until I see you in my memories.
To make you stay, I never had the power,
but I’ll see you tonight at Happy Hour.
At the end of every day it’s here I come to pray
that someday you’ll be right here by my side.
But it’s just one more night, that you’re nowhere in sight,
in this place where you said that your love had died.
To make you stay, I never had the power
but I’ll see you tonight at Happy Hour.
yes I’ll see you tonight at Happy Hour.
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12. |
Don't Say It's Over
02:55
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DON’T SAY IT’S OVER
(Jim Bruno)
Just don’t say it’s over
Just don’t say goodbye
Don’t say that you’re leaving me
It’s ok to lie
Just don’t say you’ve moved on
You don’t live in the past
Just don’t say it’s over
That’s all that I ask
Bridge
You can say that maybe now and then
It feels like this may end
But for now we’re going to leave it all alone
You can say there’s reason for concern.
Bridges have been burned
But that doesn’t mean you’re never coming home
Don’t say you’re walking
That we just didn’t last
Just don’t say it’s over
That’s all that I ask
Just don’t say it’s over
That’s all that I ask
Just don’t say it’s over
That’s all that I ask
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13. |
Your Cheatin' Heart
04:28
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Your Cheatin' Heart
(Hank Williams)
Your cheatin' heart will make you weep
You'll cry and cry and try to sleep
But sleep won't come the whole night through
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you
When tears come down like fallin' rain
You'll toss around and call my name
You'll walk the floor the way I do
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you
Your cheatin' heart will pine someday
And crave the love you threw away
The time will come when you'll be blue
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you
When tears come down like fallin' rain
You'll toss around and call my name
You'll walk the floor the way I do
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you
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Maurice Tani San Francisco, California
Maurice Tani is a "supercalifornigraphic" singer-songwriter known for his wry/rye-to-romantic songwriting, agile guitar style and expressive singing. His band, Maurice Tani & 77 El Deora has been the source of untold, but exquisite suffering for over 20 years. Tani now has 8 albums to his credit. The latest is “All In!” recorded at Greaseland USA with an all-star cast of Little Village artists. ... more
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