ROCK IN A HARD PLACE (Columbia - 1974)

 
  • JAILBAIT 
  • LIGHTNING STRIKES 
  • BITCH'S BREW 
  • BOLIVIAN RAGAMUFFIN 
  • CRY ME A RIVER 
  • PRELUDE TO JOANIE 
  • JOANIE'S BUTTERFLY 
  • ROCK IN A HARD PLACE 
  • JIG IS UP 
  • PUSH COMES TO SHOVE 

  • JAILBAIT (Tyler/Jimmy Crespo)

    Take me, take me, baby I'm drivin' maybe
    baby take me . . . .

    Take it or leave it on a Saturday night
    If what you see is what you get then gimme a bite
    Here comes the ladies, they're so insecure
    Leave it to the boys and the fool on the hill

    Hello baby, yeah it's me won't be no jock, no third degree
    Oh, jailbait
    Play the foolin', you play the pawn
    You wake up baby I'm out the door, oh jailbait
    I'm believin', someone talkin
    Can't let go, you got a hold, oh jailbait
    What it is what you believe
    In what you got, got up your sleeve, oh jailbait
    ooh jailbait, ooh jailbait, jailbait"

    Take it, leave it, roll the dice
    You hot as hell, I'm cold as ice, oh jailbait
    Tell your daddy how you do me
    Put the woodshed, do it to me, jailbait
    Whatchya see in daddy's eyes
    Check the voice, ain't no surprise, oh jailbait
    ooh, ooh jailbait, jailbait, jailbait, jailbait, jailbait

    Do me, do you, tell me, would you
    See me, me too, do me, do you
    I ain't complainin bitch's brew
    Girls in love I never knew she jailbait
    Steep the chase, cold sweatin
    Stick your feet up grace your bed, oh jailbait
    jailbait, jailbait, jailbait...



    LIGHTNING STRIKES (Richie Supa)

    the boys and dukes are ready to rumble
    the word on the street some heads are gonna tumble
    blades gonna flash when the street gangs clash
    in the avenue tonight
    when the lightning strikes
    zip gun John his finger is itchin'
    oh the lids gonna blow up in hell's kitchen
    it's an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth
    they're so ruthless when they fight
    when the lightning strikes
    there's a free-for-all in the parking lot
    over who will rule the streets
    and the night explodes when the cops bring on the heat
    and the chains they crash like thunder
    while the weak ones all retreat
    gotta draw first blood or they'll read your funeral rights
    when the lightning strikes
    it's dog eat dog when ya meet your rival
    in the combat zone it's your means of survival
    gonna get last licks on a suicide blitz
    on a cloak and dagger night
    when the lightning strikes
    there's a free-for-all in the parking lot
    over who will rule the streets
    and the night explodes when the cops bring on the heat
    and the chains they crash like thunder
    while the weak ones all retreat
    gotta draw first blood or they'll read your funeral rights

    ooh ooh ooh ooh when the lightning strikes
    when the lightning strikes
    when the lightning strikes
    can't you hear the thunder
    when the lightning strikes
    can't you hear the thunder
    when the lightning strikes
    can't ya, can't ya, can't ya hear the thunder
    when the lightning strikes
    can't ya, can't ya, can't ya hear the thunder...
    when the lightning strikes...



    BITCH'S BREW (Tyler/Jimmy Crespo)

    I tell ya a thing you foxy little flirt
    I caught you in the briar patch
    Liftin' up your skirt, well let me tell ya
    What you been doin' in the briar patch?
    What you been doing in your little skirt?
    Got in closer with a big feet ranch Makin magic

    You've been foolin' with the bitch's brew
    You know the things I warned you not to do
    You fell into the briar patch
    Ain't nothin' gonna save ya
    Remember the things you said
    You savin the screams for bread
    And now you just walk away
    So take it and go all the way

    Ah, you foolin' with the bitch's brew
    That ain't the thing you outta fool . . .with
    Now you keep your fingers out of there, honey
    You no that ain't no . . fair
    The way that you read me
    Because of the way you did
    The way the witches sight
    Oh the things that you fight (God)
    You been messin with the bitch's brew
    Now don't you know who you're talkin to?
    Said you're talkin to the bitch's brew
    Tell me you never really cared
    The voodoo men eyes of fire
    Or hoodoo men most desire
    The bitches are out in school
    Tell from the light of the moon

    I been thinkin' ran my hands through the sands of time
    Yeah, and I been drinkin', just to make this here song rhyme.

    Ooooh what the hell you want me to
    Why won't you take me with the aaaaah
    You foolin' with the bitch's brew
    Don't you...
    Don't be foolin' with the bitch's brew
    I won't be foolin' with your bitch's brew
    Don't be foolin with me now
    Don't be foolin with the bitch's brew, bitch's brew...



    BOLIVIAN RAGAMUFFIN (Tyler/Jimmy Crespo)

    Pack up your troubles in your old gym bag
    You gotta dance to the tune of Bolivian Ragamuffin
    I'll take short breaks, love her to the outbreaks

    Standing on the seashore, lookin' at the city
    See the street light, dog bite, go lady on the TD8
    The wax museum and nobody gets to see themselves
    As others care to see what nobody wants to be a baby

    Can't break, cabbage head
    Try and get a salad made
    Hold my pickle, hold the lettuce
    Session waters don't upset us
    Kick, stand, face look so evil, like Knieval
    Never make third base like a toilet bowl cleaner
    Like a squawk eight fool in I don't know orogotus
    Tip my hat to you rock a roller avocado

    Spacial, connish lie
    Smoke a bowl of feeling fine
    Burnin' people, try to let us
    Session waters won't upset us

    Hee lee cans (Kick in the pants)
    Water fall (come out and dance)
    Blame it all (Say gotta eve us a trance)

    Ain't gonna do it...



    CRY ME A RIVER (A. Hamilton)

    Now you say you lonely
    You cry the whole night through
    Well you can cry me a river,
    Cry me a river, I cried a river over you.

    Now you say you're sorry
    For being so untrue
    Well you can cry me a river
    Cry me a river, I cried a river over you.

    Now you say you're sorry
    For being so untrue
    Well you can cry me a river
    Cry me a river, I cried a river over you.

    You drove me mad and drove me out of my head
    While you never shed a tear
    Remember, I remember all that you said,
    'Tole me love was true for me an
    'tole me you was you an me an

    Now you say you loved me
    Well, juss ta prove ya do
    Go on an
    Cry me a river
    Cry me a river
    I cried a river over you...



    PRELUDE TO JOANIE (Tyler)

    At first we three thought
    'Twas the biblical cord of life
    Then noticing 'twas connected
    To his head
    How strange
    Not to be believed
    I reached out to feel
    And the pony's eyes they opened
    The cord got hard
    The head looked around
    And you know who pushed and gushed
    The waters of life
    First two hooved feet
    Then the shine of his fur
    But at first to my eyes only
    Feather - feathers - wings
    The butterflies flew up in such colors
    Exploding all around us
    The rest I did not see
    Till there he stood
    All eyes in wonder
    Who me - who you
    Look



    JOANIE'S BUTTERFLY (Tyler/Jimmy Crespo)

    What a stormy night, when I met the pony,
    It was so dark, that I could hardly see,
    It smelled so sweet, you know who and Joanie,
    So many butterflies, one could not see
    We all could feel desire, took off in flight,
    It was hotter than fire, then came the light.

    I smell the heat, the dancing ponies,
    Unwrapped his wings, to dry off Joanie,
    The pony he grew in size, the thunder and rain,
    And finally realized, what it was, what it does, and what it come to say.
    Love to kiss the cheek of mother nature,
    Nobody here can make me deny such things,
    Make the ladies you love come honey,
    No butterfly should be denied its wings

    He was a kick ass rocking horse! He was like a hell bent tied to the Gavin pole,
    He was a one time fantasy, I got the bare bones riding to the Holy Land,
    Bare backed, riding like a running man, nightmares,
    And he can't hold the candle to my dreams!
    We rode the night, and took to wing, it was so all right, it was everything,
    We flew into burning skies, the thunder and rain, and finally realized,
    What it is and what it does, and what it come and say!

    No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no took off in flight,
    No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no then came the light.
    Flashback, somethings coming over me, no sweat one time fantasy
    bare bones all that is the wind it seems, hell, who's the chick,
    That rides into my dreams?

    No Libury,
    No stabilize,
    No try to please,
    Nobody's eyes.
    We'll never see us again, tell me the past
    Letting it all begin, but all of that time, somebody shot an arrow
    Being tempted by the time is never,
    Breaking me cause your cold sometimes
    Being seduced by your own pleasures,
    ?Being king on your own time?
    He was a kick ass rocking horse, he was a
    One horn, unicornucopia,
    Two, two in utopia,
    Three star, verge into infinity,
    Four, four, ya... yaa hoo...



    ROCK IN A HARD PLACE (CHESHIRE CAT) (Tyler/Jimmy Crespo/Jack Douglas)

    It was a take it or leave it kinda Saturday night
    I wish I could love you till the cows come home, make it right
    If it's a make believe I say it ain't, tell ya then
    Cause if it's a dream I'm in please wake me up and start it again
    Ooo, close your eyes and what do you see
    Ooo, look over how you could do with your only belief
    She was a real tight manner
    Lies in over navver
    Hard core biloozy
    Late nine t'fiver
    Her second hand clothes
    Smiling like a cheshire cat

    Said it was in and out and up and down the urchin moon
    Baby a certain situation on a sea I'm who
    Wasn't a ring around the roses pull a daisy chain
    Not with your head could tell me you ain't from there and back again
    Ooh close your eyes and what do you see
    Ooh another but how what they did with your only belief in me
    She was a real tight manner
    Lies in over navver
    Hard core biloozy
    Late nine t'fiver
    Her second hand clothes
    Smiling like a cheshire cat

    Give a good one, I want to be or not to be tonight
    Why should I hold her down in bed when you should ride me right?
    Why should you give it all you got, now mid's a make amends
    Boy you'll never mind your marker and drive the bends
    Ooh close your eyes and what do you see
    Ooh another but look what they do with your only belief in me
    She was a real tight manner
    Lies in over navver
    Hard core biloozy
    Late nine to fiver
    Her second hand clothes
    Smilin' like a Cheshire Cat
    A real time manner
    Lies in off a laugher
    Hard core floozy
    Late nine driver
    Smilin' like a Cheshire Cat



    JIG IS UP (Tyler/Jimmy Crespo)

    Passion queen sold like black vaseline
    She was a long cold Sally, joy stick, know what I seen
    She's alright

    Drashin' spurs, pong man, puss n' boots
    She was an old mo lip, bold hip, oooh
    Fuck em, fuck em, fuck em, fuck em, fuck em booty yeah

    Sweet pretty lady (You lick em, you love em)
    Loose city floozy (You push em, you shove em)
    All kinda crazys (Left for lover?)
    Hair line choosy

    New York Jets, old Jock, wide in the city
    Locker room lady, drive me crazy, ooh what you do to me
    She was all tight
    Ain't alright, heh heh

    Sweet pretty lady (You lick em, you love em)
    Loose city floozy (You push em, you shove em)
    All kinda crazy (Left for lover?)
    Hair line choosy
    One for the funny
    Two for the love
    All to get ready
    The show, ooh

    Sweet pretty lady (You lick em, you love em)
    Loose city floozy (You push em, you shove em)
    All kinda crazy (Left for lover?)
    Hair line choosy



    PUSH COMES TO SHOVE (Tyler)

    Can't be in love, when ya live alone
    Push comes to shove, when you bitch and moan
    Now look it here babe, you know I'm talking about you without a doubt
    Said the music does the talking, but all you got is talk about it
    and let the girls all left behind
    And put ya woman, now I'll spend time
    With me and the boys and the toys, yeah baby
    Rosie she was 5 foot 2 with blonde hair, by crackie, n' eyes of blue
    Sukie she was on my side, cause she and Nancy, oh they took me for a ride
    those girls all left behind and put ya woman, now I'll spend time
    With me and the boys, what to do with their toys
    talk about it
    walk about it
    talk about it
    walk about it
    talk about it
    walk about it
    talk about it
    walk about it
    talk about it
    walk about it
    Bet ya' mama you'll never guess how my brothers other gigs are goin (now I know)
    cant be in love when ya live alone
    Push comes to shove when you bitch and moan
    she looked good about 35 to me when mine was still coming on clear
    but I was covered back, back then cause me and the boys knew her career
    the girls all left behind
    And put ya woman, and now I find, it's about time
    me and the boys and our toys, in the attic
    Her sister she was lanky thin
    Never thought of giving in, her candle of youth was burning low
    and me and the boys knew someone had to go
    the girls all left behind and put ya woman, now I'll spend time
    while me and the boys
    get to do the songs that I wanted covered
    talk about it
    walk about it
    talk about it
    walk about it
    talk about it
    walk about it
    talk about it
    dont you ever get lonely ? Everybodies never gonna' guess
    papa , momma, momma theres no shame in starting new
    Cant be in love, when ya live alone
    Push comes to shove when you bitch and moan
    Cant be in love, when ya live alone
    Push comes to shove when you bitch and moan

    Cant be in love, when ya live alone...
    Push comes to shove when you bitch and moan...