Molly Hatchet
Silent Reign of Heroes
1998
CMC International Records
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Crawlin through the swamps and you here me moan
stalkin after midnight I'm all alone
Three ways to Sunday that's how it be
Never take a walk alonecomin after me
Oh..Oh..Walk it like you talk it
Oh..Oh.. Watch it where you been stalkin around..no
Mama got the voodoo little bones
Daddy got a mojo noody knows
Can't get started till the night
The stars come out and moon is getting bright
Oh..Oh.. watch out what your sippin
Oh.. Oh.. Daddy knows you been messing around
Chorus:
Mississippi moon dog shakin after midnight
Gonna sweat the devil out of you
Mississippi moon dog voodoo all around now
A rattlesnake a rabbits foot too
All night long your testifying
The truth that your signifying
You ain't slept in half a week
There's no more disciples to listen to you speak
Oh..Oh.. what the hell you sayin?
Oh..Oh.. who you think you portraying now?
Chorus:
Mississippi moon dog sneaking out of Memphis
The rivers in view
Mississippi moon dog reaching through the darkness
Sun never shines through
Mississippi moon dog listen to em howling
Muddy waters singing out the blues
Mississippi moon dog chicken come a scratching at ya
The swamps pointing at you
Chorus:
Mississippi moon dog shakin all around now
Jackson's in view
Mississippi moon dog seven comes eleven now
Snake eyes won't do
Mississippi moon dog, Mississippi mon dog
Mississippi moon dog, Mississippi mon dog
Well the world were livin in has gone completely insane
riding to the wall from all across the land
The wars been over twenty years but they still come who can
Read the names of the land of the free
Think of the brothers who went down for you and me.
I ran into an old friend I hadn't seen in 20 years
Talked about the good old days and cried some tears
You've never seen the things he's trying to forget
Saw hell for 18 months you ain't sen nothing yet
Chorus:
Rolling thunder writings on the wall
six feet under brothers heard the call
Rolling thunder writings on the wall
Death with honor dreams will never fall
This wall is for Americans who fought in Vietnam
Who fought and died for rich old men who never held a gun
Read the names of the boys who went down for me and you
Just keep it in your mind you're name could be there too. yet.
A fire is burning low the moon is on the rise
Stuck in a devil's canyon surrounded by all sides
Got nowhere left to run time is drawing near
Well load up your guns its time to fight
It just don't matter who's wrong or right
Load up your guns get a man in your sights
This canyon's gonna feel the fire tonight
We've been together since the day we were born
And watched our daddy die - shot and killed
End of story too many pages torn
Ya ain't gonna run ya ain't gonna go down alone
Many a man good, bad never see the dawn
Pappy wouldn't sell our home to make way for the tracks
Somebody from a big old railroad had my daddy shot in the back
Chorus repeat and bridge repeat
Well load up your guns its time to fight
It just don't matter who's wrong or right
Load up your guns get a man in your sights
This canyon's gonna burn
Chorus repeat
This canyon's gonna feel the fire
This canyon's gonna burn
This canyon's gonna burn like hell
I see it on TV watch it everyday
Men with no conscience don't care who they slay
Children killing children for insult or greed
Don't want what they have don't know what they need
Shot for a dollar or the color of your car
You try to find justice you won't get far
Too many families living on the street
Too many babies with nothing to eat
To clear the land they build a wall of fire
To get their way they use a gun for hire
Just trying to do the best I can
To live in this heartless land
So many people doing without
They have no power no political clout
Cutting down the forest, killing off the seas
Don't look to the future they just do what they please
Chorus repeat
We got to stand up find another way
To solve these problems it gets worse every day
Hand in hand as hard as it seems
We can save ourselves and our children's dreams
Chorus repeat
I'm trying to live we got to learn to forgive
I'm doing my best - don't you know - to live in this heartless land
Rolling down this highway, for years it seems
Trying to chase that Rock 'n Roll dream
Ain't no way I'm gonna throw in the towel
I just keep pushing its just my style
Yes I'm a rockin I'll keep rollin
It doesn't matter if its up or down
The band is drivin music's surviving
It ain't over till we rock your town
I never say never I've been down before
I never say never just when you count me out
I'll be back for more
Just doesn't matter it keeps getting better
Don't try to tell me its time to come home
Just keep hitting it nothing else to do
Were do you live I'm coming for you
Yes I'm a rockin I'll keep rollin
Getting my kick till I get my fill
Ain't nothing to it just gotta do it
Making my music gonna fire at will
Chorus repeat
Written by: Bryan Basset, Phil McCormackSeven seas seven skies
Lightning strikes and brave men die
Tatanka great, Tatanka small
When darkness comes they kill them all
Tatanka
You take what you want but you don't ask
You're future doesn't lie with things of the past
The search for freedom will never be found
As long as we stand upon this sacred ground
The curse of the curses upon the land
One day Tatanka will make a stand
Take back the soul of mother nature
Give back the spirit of a world endangered
Tatanka comes, stand and deliver
The souls of the brave lie on forever
The tale of tears is a tale of courage
Tatanka comes from across the river
Chorus repeat
The battles were fought and the damage was done
The wars not over its just begun
The debt that's owed will never be payed
The promised land will never be saved
The curse of curses fire on the land
Today Tatanka has made a stand
Their forefathers dreams, hopes, and vision
Through children's eyes has it been forgiven
Chorus repeat
Le Lakota tolowan yelo
Channi tatanka oyate ki
icic' upi nahan taku un
umnipi nahan unkotipi kte k'un
lepa unk' upelo
wasicu ki ahi nahan
wicakasota pi tka
tatanka tawowakan ki lena
hecenanhgluhapelo
This is a song for the Lakota
Long time ago the buffalo
nation gave themselves
so we can survive and
have shelter
The white man came
and wiped them out
but we still have the spirit
the power of the buffalo
Tatanka comes, stand and deliver
The souls of the brave live forever
The trail of the rears is a tale of courage
Tatanka comes, Tatanka comes
When I came to your house
I heard the backdoor slam
You was having fun
With your part time man
I know you'll find time to slip away
I'm gonna get my gun
That is what I say
I'm gonna even the score
Chorus:
Come hell or high water
She'll be rolling the dice with everything I bought her
Come hell or high water
I'm gonna catch you doing what you hadn't oughta
Why do you treat me like a stone cold fool
I know you're out there sneakin or doing the do
Come on now that ain't right
Chorus:
Come hell or high water
She'll be rollin the dice with everything I bought her
Come hell or high water
I'm gonna catch you doin what you hadn't oughta
It doesn't matter what you do
I'm walkin away from you
It doesn't matter what you say
I'm leavin you baby said I'm leavin today
Come hell, hep, hon
It doesn't matter where you been
I'm walkin away from you my friend
I'm telling you I'm going, going, gone
Keep on slippin and doggin around
I know I'll have my fun
Chorus repeat
Written by: Bobby Ingram, Phil McCormackWhere I am gonna be tommorrow
And where in the world have I been
How did it get that far when does the madness stop
Where is it taking me how did it begin
How did it begin
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With the look in your eyes
The look in your eyes I see you standing there
With the look in your eyes
The look in your eyes with the look in your eyes
What are all of these changes
Can't you see take a look around
Just another episode
As this old world turns
Deep inside this heart of mine a wildfire burns
And it burns
Chorus:
With the look in your eyes
The look in your eyes I see you all alone
With the look in your eyes
The look in your eyes
At night I look to the sky
We'll reach forever you and I
Forever you and I
I look in your eyes you're all I see
I shut the world out surrounding me
If you're gonna have sunshine
Lord knows gotta stand the rain
But sometimes I get to feelin
It ain't worth all this pain
Chorus repeat
Written by: Bobby Ingram, John Galvin, Phil McCormackChorus:
Baby, eat your heart out
Listen honey - I don't want you no more
Baby, eat your heart out
Ain't bein' funny just want you out my door
I hear the talk all over town
Says to me you're foolin' around
Come on sugar don't ya lie to me
I don't like the things I see
You wanted all the money
You loved that Cadillac
You can't be for real, now honey
Now you wanna come back
Chorus:
Baby, eat your heart out
Listen honey - I don't want you no more
Baby, eat your heart out
I don't mean maybe, I just want you to know the score
Now I got you on your knees
Just beggin for mercy if you please
Get on out on out that door
I can't stand your pain no more
No more.........
You know you had your chance
To make it right with me
But it takes a special Lady
To ride this road with me
Chorus repeat
Baby, eat your heart out
Listen honey - I don't want you no more
Baby, eat your heart out
Don't mean maybe, just want you out my door
Baby, eat your heart out
Listen sugar baby I'm talkin to you
Baby, eat your heart out
Get on, get up, get on, get out of my life
A king without a sword
A land without a king
The truth without a voice
One song left to sing
One song to sing
A wise man told me there's something you should know
The way you judge a man is to look into his soul
And you'll soon see everything.
A voice from the past cried "Give peace a chance."
He paid our price now he's free at last
And imagine we called him a dreamer.
How many times must good men die?
How many tears will the children cry?
Till we suffer no more sadness
Stop the madness,
Oh Stop the madness.
If ashes are ashes and dust is dust
And our journey's end and then we turn to rust
To the sands of the shore
White doves then fly
Peace to all
Tell me why the peacemakers fall
Must we bury anymore
A hush in the crowd as the horse rode by
Black lace veil hid the tears from her eyes
And we all wept in silence
How many times must good men die?
How many times will the children cry?
Till we suffer no more sadness
Oh stop the madness
Oh stop all the madness.
A king without a sword
A land without a king
The truth without a voice
One song left to sing
One song to sing
A wise man told me there's something you should know
The way you judge a man is to look into his soul
And you'll soon see everything.
A voice from the past cried "Give peace a chance."
He paid our price now he's free at last
And imagine we called him a dreamer.
How many times must good men die?
How many tears will the children cry?
Till we suffer no more sadness
Stop the madness,
Oh Stop the madness.
If ashes are ashes and dust is dust
And our journey's end and then we turn to rust
To the sands of the shore
White doves then fly
Peace to all
Tell me why the peacemakers fall
Must we bury anymore
A hush in the crowd as the horse rode by
Black lace veil hid the tears from her eyes
And we all wept in silence
How many times must good men die?
How many times will the children cry?
Till we suffer no more sadness
Oh stop the madness
Oh stop all the madness.