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Private Investigations

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  1. Telegraph roadVer letra

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    A long time ago came a man on a track
    Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back
    And he put down his load where he thought it was the best
    He made a home in the wilderness
    He built a cabin and a winter store
    And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore
    And the other travellers came walking down the track
    And they never went further and they never went back
    Then came the churches then came the schools
    Then came the lawyers then came the rules
    Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
    And the dirty old track was the telegraph road

    Then came the mines - then came the ore
    Then there was the hard times then there was a war
    Telegraph sang a song about the world outside
    Telegraph road got so deep and so wide
    Like a rolling river

    And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze
    People driving home from the factories
    There's six lanes of traffic
    Three lanes moving slow

    I used to like to go to work but they shut it down
    I've got a right to go to work but there's no work here to be found
    Yes and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed
    We're gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowed
    And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles
    They can always fly away from this rain and this cold
    You can hear them singing out their telegraph code
    All the way down the telegraph road

    You know I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights
    When life was just a bet on a race between the lights
    You had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair
    Now you act a little colder like you don't seem to care
    But believe in me baby and I'll take you away
    From out of this darkness and into the day
    From these rivers of headlights these rivers of rain
    From the anger that lives on the streets with these names
    Cause I've run every red light on memory lane
    I've seen desperation explode into flames
    And I don't wanna see it again

    From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed
    All the way down the telegraph road

  2. Sultans of swingVer letra

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    You get a shiver in the dark
    It's raining in the park but meantime
    South of the river you stop and you hold everything
    A band is blowing Dixie double four time
    You feel alright when you hear that music ring

    You step inside but you don't see too many faces
    Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down
    Too much competition too many other places
    But not too many horns can make that sound
    Way on downsouth way on downsouth London town

    You check out Guitar George he knows all the chords
    Mind he's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing
    And an old guitar is all he can afford
    When he gets up under the lights to play his thing

    And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene
    He's got a daytime job he's doing alright
    He can play honky tonk just like anything
    Saving it up for Friday night
    With the Sultans with the Sultans of Swing

    And a crowd of young boys they're fooling around in the corner
    Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles
    They don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band
    It ain't what they call rock and roll
    And the Sultans played Creole

    And then the man he steps right up to the microphone
    And says at last just as the time bell rings
    'Thank you goodnight now it's time to go home'
    And he makes it fast with one more thing
    'We are the Sultans of Swing'

  3. Love over goldVer letra

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    You walk out on the high wire
    You're a dancer on thin ice
    You pay no heed to the danger
    And less to advice
    Your footsteps are forbidden
    But with knowledge of your sin
    You throw your love to all the strangers
    And caution to the wind

    And you go dancing through doorways
    Just to see what you will find
    Leaving nothing to interfere
    With the crazy balance of your mind
    And when you finally reappear
    At the place where you came in
    You've thrown your love to all the strangers
    And caution to the wind

    It takes love over gold
    And mind over matter
    To do what you do that you must
    When the things that you hold
    Can fall and be shattered
    Or run through your fingers like dust

  4. Rome & Juliet
  5. Tunnel of loveVer letra

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    Getting crazy on the waltzers but it's the life that I choose
    Sing about the sixblade sing about the switchback and a torture tattoo
    And I been riding on a ghost train where the cars they scream and slam
    And I don't know where I'll be tonight but I'd always tell you where I am

    In a screaming ring of faces I seen her standing in the light
    She had a ticket for the races just like me she was a victim of the night
    I put my hand upon the lever said let it rock and let it roll
    I had the one arm bandit fever there was an arrow through my heart and my soul

    And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above
    And I'm just high on the world
    Come on and take a low ride with me girl
    On the tunnel of love

    It's just the danger when you're riding at your own risk
    She said you are the perfect stranger she said baby let's keep it like this
    It's just a cakewalk twisting baby step right up and say
    Hey mister give me two give me two cos any two can play

    And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above
    And I'm just high on the world
    Come on and take a low ride with me girl
    On the tunnel of love

    Well it's been money for muscle another whirligig
    Money for muscle another girl I dig
    Another hustle just to make it big
    And rockaway rockaway

    And girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did
    Like the spanish city to me when we were kids
    Oh girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did
    Like the spanish city to me when we were kids

    She took off a silver locket she said remember me by this
    She put her hand in my pocket I got a keepsake and a kiss
    And in the roar of dust and diesel I stood and watched her walk away
    I could have caught up with her easy enough but something must have made me stay

    And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above
    And I'm just high on the world
    Come on and take a low ride with me girl
    On the tunnel of love

    And now I'm searching through these carousels and the carnival arcades
    Searching everywhere from steeplechase to palisades
    In any shooting gallery where promises are made
    To rockaway rockaway from Cullercoats and Whitley bay out to rockaway

    And girl it looks so pretty to me like it always did
    Like the spanish city to me when we were kids
    Girl it looks so pretty to me like it always did
    Like the spanish city to me when we were kids

  6. Private investigationsVer letra

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    It's a mystery to me - the game commences
    For the usual fee - plus expenses
    Confidential information - it's in a diary
    This is my investigation - it's not a public inquiry

    I go checking out the reports - digging up the dirt
    You get to meet all sorts in this line of work
    Treachery and treason - there's always an excuse for it
    And when I find the reason I still can't get used to it

    And what have you got at the end of the day?
    What have you got to take away?
    A bottle of whisky and a new set of lies
    Blinds on the window and a pain behind the eyes

    Scarred for life - no compensation
    Private investigations

  7. So far awayVer letra

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    Here I am again in this mean old town
    And you're so far away from me
    And where are you when the sun goes down
    You're so far away from me

    So far away from me
    So far I just can't see
    So far away from me
    You're so far away from me

    I'm tired of being in love and being all alone
    When you're so far away from me
    I'm tired of making out on the telephone
    And you're so far away from me

    So far away from me
    So far I just can't see
    So far away from me
    You're so far away from me

    I get so tired when I have to explain
    When you're so far away from me
    See you've been in the sun and I've been in the rain
    And you're so far away from me

    So far away from me
    So far I just can't see
    So far away from me
    You're so far away from me

  8. Money for nothing
  9. Brothers in armsVer letra

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    letra de Brothers in arms

    These mist covered mountains
    Are a home now for me
    But my home is the lowlands
    And always will be
    Some day you'll return to
    Your valleys and your farms
    And you'll no longer burn
    To be brothers in arms

    Through these fields of destruction
    Baptisms of fire
    I've witnessed your suffering
    As the battles raged higher
    And though they did hurt me so bad
    In the fear and alarm
    You did not desert me
    My brothers in arms

    There's so many different worlds
    So many different suns
    And we have just one world
    But we live in different ones

    Now the sun's gone to hell
    And the moon's riding high
    Let me bid you farewell
    Every man has to die
    But it's written in the starlight
    And every line on your palm
    We're fools to make war
    On our brothers in arms

  10. Walk of lifeVer letra

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    Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies
    Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say
    Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman
    Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay
    He got the action, he got the motion
    Yeah the boy can play
    Dedication devotion
    Turning all the night time into the day

    He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman
    He do the song about the knife
    He do the walk, he do the walk of life

    Here comes Johnny and he'll tell you the story
    Hand me down my walkin' shoes
    Here come Johnny with the power and the glory
    Backbeat the talkin' blues
    He got the action, he got the motion
    Yeah the boy can play
    Dedication devotion
    Turning all the night time into the day

    He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman
    He do the song about the knife
    He do the walk, he do the walk of life

    Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies
    Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say
    Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman
    Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay
    He got the action, he got the motion
    Yeah the boy can play
    Dedication devotion
    Turning all the night time into the day

    And after all the violence and double talk
    There's just a song in all the trouble and the strife
    You do the walk, you do the walk of life

  11. You latest trick

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  1. Calling ElvisVer letra

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    Calling Elvis - is anybody home
    Calling Elvis - I'm here all alone
    Did he leave the building
    Or can he come to the phone
    Calling Elvis - I'm here all alone

    Well tell him I was calling just to wish him well
    Let me leave my number - heartbreak hotel
    Oh love me tender - baby don't be cruel
    Return to sender - treat me like a fool

    Calling Elvis - is anybody home
    Calling Elvis - I'm here all alone
    Did he leave the building
    Can he come to the phone
    Calling Elvis - I'm here all alone

    Why don't you go get him - I'm his biggest fan
    You gotta tell him - he's still the man
    Long distance baby - so far from home
    Don't you think maybe you could put him on

    Well tell him I was calling just to wish him well
    Let me leave my number - heartbreak hotel
    Oh love me tender - baby don't be cruel
    Return to sender - treat me like a fool

    Calling Elvis - is anybody home
    Calling Elvis - I'm here all alone
    Did he leave the building
    Can he come to the phone
    Calling Elvis - I'm here all alone

  2. On every streetVer letra

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    There's gotta be a record of you someplace
    You gotta be on somebody's books
    The lowdown - a picture of your face
    Your injured looks
    The sacred and profane
    The pleasure and the pain
    Somewhere your fingerprints remain concrete
    And it's your face I'm looking for on every street

    A ladykiller - regulation tattoo
    Silver spurs on his heels
    Says - what can I tell you, as I'm standing next to you
    She threw herself under my wheels
    Oh it's a dangerous road
    And a hazardous load
    And the fireworks over liberty explode in the heat
    And it's your face I'm looking for on every street

    A three-chord symphony crashes into space
    The moon is hanging upside down
    I don't know why it is I'm still on the case
    It's a ravenous town
    And you still refuse to be traced
    Seems to me such a waste
    And every victory has a taste that's bittersweet
    And it's your face I'm looking for on every street

  3. Going home
  4. Darling prettyVer letra

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    It's time to come away, my darling pretty
    It's time to come away on the changing tide
    Time to come away, darling pretty
    And I need you darling by my side

    Heal me with a smile, darling pretty
    Heal me with a smile and a heart of gold
    Carry me awhile, my darling pretty
    Heal my aching heart and soul

    Just like a castaway
    Lost upon an endless sea
    I saw you far away
    Come to rescue me

    Cast away the chains, darling pretty
    Cast away the chains away behind
    Take away my pain, my darling pretty
    And the chains that once were yours and mine

    There will come a day, darling pretty
    There will come a day when hearts can fly
    Love will find a way, my darling pretty
    Find a heaven for you and I
    Love will find a way, my darling pretty
    Find a heaven for you and I

  5. The long road
  6. Why aye manVer letra

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    "WHY AYE MAN"

    We had no way of staying afloat,
    We had to leave on a ferryboat.
    Economic refugees,
    On the run to Germany.
    We had the back of Maggie's hand,
    Times were tough in Geordieland.
    We got our tools and working gear
    And humped it all from Newcastle to here.

    Why aye man.
    Why aye, why aye man.
    Why aye man,
    Why aye, why aye man.
    Why aye man.
    Why aye, why aye man.
    Why aye man,
    Why aye, why aye man.

    We're nomad tribes, travelling boys,
    In the dust and dirt and the wrecking noise.
    Drills and hammers, diggers and picks,
    Mixing concrete, laying bricks.
    There's English, Irish, Scots, the lot.
    United Nations what we got.
    Brickies, chippies, every trade.
    German building, British made.

    Why aye man.
    Why aye, why aye man.
    Why aye man,
    Why aye, why aye man.
    Why aye man.
    Why aye, why aye man.
    Why aye man,
    Why aye, why aye man.

    Nay more work on Maggie's farm.
    Haddaway down the autobahn.
    Mine's a Portakabin bed,
    Or a bunk in a Nissen hut instead.

    There's plenty Deutschmarks here to earn.
    And German tarts are wunderschön.
    German beer is chemical free.
    Germany's alright with me.
    Sometimes I miss my river Tyne,
    But you're my pretty fräulein.
    Tonight we'll drink the old town dry,
    Keep our spirit levels high.

    Why aye man.
    Why aye, why aye man.
    Why aye man,
    Why aye, why aye man.
    Why aye man.
    Why aye, why aye man.
    Why aye man,
    Why aye, why aye man.

    Sometimes I miss my river Tyne,
    But you're my pretty fräulein.
    Tonight we'll drink the old town dry,
    Keep wor spirit levels high.

    Sometimes I miss my river Tyne,
    But you're my pretty fräulein.
    Tonight we'll drink the old town dry,
    Keep wor spirit levels high.

  7. Sailing to PhiladelphiaVer letra

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    I am Jeremiah Dixon
    I am a Geordie boy
    A glass of wine with you, sir
    And the ladies I'll enjoy
    All Durham and Northumberland
    Is measured up by my own hand
    It was my fate from birth
    To make my mark upon the earth...

    He calls me Charlie Mason
    A stargazer am I
    It seems that I was born
    To chart the evening sky
    They'd cut me out for baking bread
    But I had other dreams instead
    This baker's boy from the west country
    Would join the Royal Society...

    We are sailing to Philadelphia
    A world away from the coaly Tyne
    Sailing to Philadelphia
    To draw the line
    The Mason-Dixon line

    Now you're a good surveyor, Dixon
    But I swear you'll make me mad
    The West will kill us both
    You gullible Geordie lad
    You talk of liberty
    How can America be free
    A Geordie and a baker's boy
    In the forest of the Iroquois...

    Now hold your head up, Mason
    See America lies there
    The morning tide has raised
    The capes of Delaware
    Come up and feel the sun
    A new morning is begun
    Another day will make it clear
    Why your stars should guide us here...

    We are sailing to Philadelphia
    A world away from the coaly Tyne
    Sailing to Philadelphia
    To draw the line
    The Mason-Dixon line

  8. What it isVer letra

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    The drinking dens are spilling out
    There's staggering in the square
    There's lads and lasses falling about
    And a crackling in the air
    Down around the dungeon doors
    The shelters and the queues
    Everybody's looking for
    Somebody's arms to fall into
    That's what it is
    It's what it is now

    There's frost on the graves and the monuments
    But the taverns are warm in town
    People curse the government
    And shovel hot food down
    Lights are out in the city hall
    The castle and the keep
    The moon shines down upon it all
    The legless and asleep

    And it's cold on the tollgate
    With the wagons creeping through
    Cold on the tollgate
    God knows what I could do with you
    That's what it is
    It's what it is now

    The garrison sleeps in the citadel
    With the ghosts and the ancient stones

    High up on the parapet
    A Scottish piper stands alone
    And high on the wind
    The highland drums begin to roll
    And something from the past just comes
    And stares into my soul

    And it's cold on the tollgate
    Let the drums beat the tatoo
    Cold on the tollgate
    God knows what I could do with you
    That's what it is
    It's what it is now
    What it is
    It's what it is now

    There's a chink of light, there's a burning wick
    There's a lantern in the tower
    Wee Willie Winkie with a candlestick
    Still writing songs in the wee wee hours
    On Charlotte Street I take
    A walking stick from my hotel
    The ghost of Dirty dick
    Is still in search of Little Nell
    That's what it is
    It's what it is now
    It's what it is
    What it is now

  9. Trawlermans song
  10. Boom like that
  11. All the road running
  12. Bonus track dueto con Emmylou Harris

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