Oldie Goldies

Desperado

written by Don Henley & Glenn Frey

Desperado
Why don't you come to your senses
You've been out riding fences for so long now
Oh you're a hard one
But I know that you've got your reasons
These things that are pleasing you will hurt you somehow

Don't you draw the queen of diamonds boy
She'll beat you if she's able
The queen of hearts is always your best bet
Well it seems to me some fine things
Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the things that you can't get

Desperado
you know you ain't getting younger
Your pain and your hunger are driving you home
And freedom, oh freedom
Well that's just some people talking
Your prison is walking through this world all alone

Don't your feet get cold in the wintertime
Sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
It's hard to tell the night time from the day
You're losing all your highs and lows
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away

Desperado
Why don't you come to your senses
Come down from your fences
Open the gate
It may be raining
But there's a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you
Let somebody love you
Before it's too late

Silver Threads and Golden Needles

written by Jack Rhodes & Dick Reynolds

I don't want your lonely mansion with a tear in every room
All I want's the love you promised beneath the haloed moon
But you think I should be happy with your money and your name
And hide myself in sorrow while you play your cheating game

Silver threads and golden needles cannot mend this heart of mine
And I dare not drown my sorrow in the warm glow of your wine
You can't buy my love with money cause I never was that kind
Silver threads and golden needles cannot mend this heart of mine

Silver threads and golden needles cannot mend this heart of mine
And I dare not drown my sorrow in the warm glow of your wine
You can't buy my love with money cause I never was that kind
Silver threads and golden needles cannot mend this heart of mine

Silver threads and golden needles cannot mend this heart of mine

Long Long Time

written by Gary B. White
Universal MCA Music (ASCAP)

Love will abide, take things in stride
Sounds like good advice but there's no one at my side
And time washes clean love's wounds unseen
That's what someone told me but I don't know what it means.

Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
And I think I'm gonna love you for a long long time

Caught in my fears
Blinking back the tears
I can't say you hurt me when you never let me near
And I never drew one response from you
All the while you fell all over girls you never knew
Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
And I think it's gonna hurt me for a long long time

Wait for the day
You'll go away
Knowing that you warned me of the price I'd have to pay
And life's full of flaws
Who knows the cause?
Living in the memory of a love that never was
Cause I've done everything I know to try and change your mind
and I think I'm gonna miss you for a long long time
Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
And I think I'm gonna love you for a long long time.

When Will I Be Loved

written by Phil Everly
© Acuff-Rose Publications Inc.

I've been cheated
Been mistreated
When will I be loved

I've been pushed down
I've been pushed 'round
When will I be loved

When I find a new man
That I want for mine
He always breaks my heart into
It happens every time

I've been made blue
I've been lied to
When will I be loved

When I find a new man
That I want for mine
He always breaks my heart into
It happens every time

Oh, I've been cheated
Been mistreated
When will I be loved
When will I be loved
Tell me, when will I be loved

Blue Bayou

I feel so bad, I've got a worried mind
I'm so lonesome all the time
since I left my baby behind
on Blue Bayou

Saving nickels, saving dimes
Working 'til the sun don't shine
Looking forward to happier times
on Blue Bayou

I'm going back some day
come what may
to Blue Bayou
Where you sleep all day
and the catfish play
on Blue Bayou
All those fishing boats
with their sails afloat
If I could only see
that familiar sunrise
through sleepy eyes
how happy I'd be

Go to see my baby again
and to be with some of my friends
Maybe I'd be happy then
on Blue Bayou

Saving nickels, saving dimes
Working 'til the sun don't shine
Looking forward to happier times on Blue Bayou

I'm going back some day
gonna stay on Blue Bayou
Where the folks are fine
and the world is mine
on Blue Bayou
All those fishing boats
with their sails afloat
If I could only see
that familiar sunrise
through sleepy eyes
how happy I'd be

Ah, that girl of mine by my side
the silver moon and the evening tide
Oh some sweet day
gonna take away this hurtin' inside
I'll never be blue
my dreams come true
on Blue Bayou



Joe Melson, Roy Orbison,
© Copyright 1961, Renewed 1989. Barbara Orbison Music Company/BMI/Roy Oribison Music Company/BMI/
Acuff-Rose Music,Inc./BMI. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.