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From: rickl1@IX.netcom.com (Rick L)
Subject: CRD:   You Just Need A Home     Lucy Kaplansky             Chords/Lyrics
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 03:15:33 GMT

Lucy Kaplanski   You Just Need A Home  by Lucy Kaplansky

D
I like the way you play your songs
  D/C
I like the way you sing
G                   C        G
You look so good in colored lights
                  C          D
And the brilliant spotlight rings
D
And up there your eyes are fiery
    D/C
And hotter by degree
G             C      G
But weary and so confused
            C        D
When no one else can see
D
So you need to feel the fire
         D/C
When you feel it start to go
   G                C          G
To feel the heat of all those  lights
C              D
Long after the show
D
And you need it so much now
D/C
You don't even know
G                 C         G
All the world's a stage to you
     C                 D
Then where else can you go
               G             A     D
You could come away with me tonight
G             A   D
I can make it all right
G                A    D
You don't need a spotlight
G        A      D
You just need a home
D
I want to drive away with you
D/C
Far from New York streets
G             C   G
And head on a highway
          C                  D
Where the sky and road still meet
D
And  the sky out there is bright
        D/C
And the moon's about to rise
G              C   G
It's all there waiting
       C            D
If you look into my eyes
D
Cause here in the city
       D/C
Theres isn't much to see
G            C     G
Here in this apartment
C              D
You can hardly breathe
D
And the only lights you see tonight
           D/C
Are on the ceiling moving slow
G                  C     G
Flashing signs and headlights
      C          D
In an eerie neon glow
               G             A     D
You could come away with me tonight
G             A   D
I can make it all right
G                A    D
You don't need a spotlight
G        A      D
You just need a home

>From Lucy Kaplansky The Tide CD
Red House Records 1994
Lucy Kaplansky Music 1982(ASCAP)

here's yet another song i found transcribed in a different key (G),
capoed (II), but, i like the way it sounds my way, no capo, in A.
another song i wished i'd written, too, except lucy got to it first!
(a few years ago)
as usual suggestions, correction, donations are welcome.
 laura
missezpremise@aol.com

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THE TIDE

   -Lucy Kaplansky

A   E

          A
There are demons in the water
          E
There are devils in the sea
          D
There are dangers in the current
         A                E
When the tide goes out of me

         A
I could drink you under the table
         E
I could drink you out of town
         D
I could drink you off the planet
      A                E
Drink myself into the ground

           A                E
And I have nothing for you tonight
       F#m             E     D
I have nothing for you tonight
       A                 E
I have nothing for you tonight
       F#m           D
I have nothing for you

       A
I was made to be a good girl
        E
Carried buckets made of stone
        D
Full of envy, full of sorrow
      A             E
On a tightrope all alone

            A
And all the time I was on fire
   E
I burned with every stride
    D
And now I see this anger
       A                 E
Is the horse I choose to ride

         A
Now you say you want something nice from me
            E
Well if you find it, take it, it's on me
        D
In the meantime don't bother me
     A                   E
The tide has washed the nice from me

           A                E
And I have nothing for you tonight
       F#m             E     D
I have nothing for you tonight
       A                 E
I have nothing for you tonight
       F#m           D
I have nothing for you

   A
In nothing are the voices
         E
And the pictures of my life
        D
In the nothing of the sky
      A             E
Is an ocean made of light

       A
In the nothing of my silence
      E
Is a sad-eyed little girl
     D
On a tightrope she is singing
       A                   E
As she passes through this world

           A               E
And I have nothing for you tonight
       F#m             E     D
I have nothing for you tonight
       A                 E
I have nothing for you tonight
       F#m           D
I have nothing for you ...

9/09/01

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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 03:17:52 +0000 (GMT)
From: rickl1@IX.netcom.com (Rick L)
Subject: CRD:   Somebody's Home       Lucy Kaplansky        Chords/Lyrics

Lucy Kaplanski   Somebody's Home  written by Lucy Kaplanski

Shawn Colvin background vocals

D                  A
It's raining in my house tonight
G                   D
Roof's leaking everywhere
D                Am
It's overflowing buckets
    C                D
And pouring down the stairs
G                       D
Taking spins around the hallway
     Bm       A       G
Then rambling out the door
                D
Out across  the highway
    Am       G     D
And down the empty pier
D                  A
Then deep into the river
    G             D
The water it does fall
D                Am
I hear the river rising
       C               D
As I listen through my wall
G                D
And everytime it rains
    Bm    A      G
And every time I cry
G                 D
It's just another current
        Am    G       Am  C
In that river flowing by
G           D
Somebody's home
           Bm       A    G
Though you ache and feel alone
G              D      C  G
Someone you've always known
G          D
Somebody's home

Instrumental

D                    A
There's a fire in my house tonight
     G               D
It's climbing up the stairs
D                    Am
It's tearing thru my photographs
    C               D
And choking off the air
    G                  D
And now the walls are burning too
        Bm      A        G
And the roof is crashing in
G                   D
And finally there's only flames
      Am      G         D
Where once my house had been
D                  A
As embers fall the flame take off
   G              D
In spirals to the sky
D                  Am
Then turn into the blazing stars
     C                D
That thru the heavens fly
    G                 D
And though I mourn my own  four walls
  Bm  A       G
I try to understand
G                   D
I can see my wooden house
       Am    G     Am   C
In the ashes in my hand
G           D
Somebody's home
           Bm       A    G
Though you ache and feel alone
G              D      C  G
Someone you've always known
G          D
Somebody's home
G           D
Somebody's home
           Bm       A    G
Though you ache and feel alone
G              D      C  G
Someone you've always known
G          D
Somebody's home
G          D
Somebody's home
G          D
Somebody's home


>From Lucy Kaplansky The Tide CD
Red House Records 1994
Lucy Kaplanski Music ASCAP  1985

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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 02:03:35 GMT
From: Rick L 
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: CRD: Scorpion Lucky Kaplansky Chords/Lyrics

Lucy Kaplanski   Scorpion  written by Lucy Kaplanski
                                      Richard Litvin


   A         E     F#m
In night inside at night
   A           E          F#m
No whispers no worries no words
     D               D/C#           Bm
Just light fills the corner of your eye
         A         Esus E
Take me in take me in
     A             E        F#m
Cold sky dark Montanta long road
        A        E              F#m
Running fence radio trucks blow by
   D       D/C#    Bm
Up high no air big dreams
        A            E   Esus
Take me back take me back
A         Esus           E
I want to show you everything  everything
D                       A           E
I want to give you everything  everything
A                        E
There's a chance now and then now and then
D               A   D               A
No more cut and run no more cut and run
A               E              F#m
Blue night blue world tracking you
      A         E           F#m
I'm a scorpion coming after you
D              D/C#          Bm
Running out of darkness and time
            A                 E
Looking for you  looking for you
      A                 E            F#m
Gonna sting you with a kiss from my lips
      A                E            F#m
Gonna sting you with a piece  of my mind
      D                D/C#        Bm
Gonna sting you with a taste of my skin
            A                E
Then you're mine then you're mine
A         Esus          E
I want to show you everything  everything
D                       A           E
I want to give you everything  everything
A                        E
There's a chance now and then now and then
D               A   D               A
No more cut and run no more cut and run


>From Lucy Kaplansky Flesh And Bone CD
Red House Records 1996
Lucyricky Music ASCAP  1994

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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 04:50:39 GMT
From: Rick L 
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: CRD: Return Of The Grievous Angel Lucy Kaplanky Chords/Lyrics

Lucy Kaplansky  Return of the Grievous Angel  written by Gram Parsons

G                               C     G
Won't you scratch my itch sweet Annie Rich
G              D       G
And welcome me back to town
G                              C              G
Come out on your porch or I'll step into your parlour
         A                        D
And I'll tell you how it all went down
G                                                G7   C
Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels
      G                           C
And a good saloon in every single town
    C          D                       G
And I remember something that you once told me
    C                 D               G
And I'll be damned if it did not come true
C               D            G     Bm    Em
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down
    C                D                     G
And they all lead me straight back home to you
        Bm             C        D       G
Cause I headed West to grow up with the country
Em                    D                   G
Across those prairies with those waves of grain
      Bm                  C      D         G
And I saw my devil, and I saw my deep blue sea
      C                      D           C           D      G
And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennesee
G                            C     G
We flew straight across that river bridge,
           D         G
Last night half past two
G                               C                G      A
The switchman waved his lantern goodbye and good day as we
             D
Went rolling through
G                                     G7       C
Billboards and truckstops pass by the grievous angel
G                   D              G
And     I know just what I have to do

SOLO

        Bm               C     D         G
And the man on the radio won't leave me alone
            Em                D
He wants to take my money for something that
                G
I've never been shown
      Bm                C        D         G
And I saw my devil, and I saw my deep blue see
       C                     D           C           D     G
And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennesee
G                            C           G
The news I could bring I met up with the king
               D           G
On his head an amphetamine crown
                                C         G
He talked about unbuckling that old bible belt
    A7                         D
And headed out for some desert town
G                                             G7      C
Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels
      G                           C
And a good saloon in every single town
    C          D                       G
And I remember something that you once
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From: rickl1@IX.netcom.com (Rick L)
Subject: CRD:   My Name  Joe       Lucy Kaplansky    Chords/Lyrics
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 02:27:04 GMT

Lucy Kaplanski   My Name Joe   written by  David Massengill

F
Joe threw another tantrum
   Bb
He could not to be understood
   Eb              Bb
He cries like baby Samson
    F
His English is not good

Joe's boss of the kitchen
           Bb
But on the outside he knows
Eb               Bb
Low man on  the totem's
        F
Wearing giveaway clothes

Joe he  fights the good fight
   Bb
He wears a white uniform
    Eb              Bb
The waiters are all artists
    F
Out chasing unicorns

Joe works fourteen hours
      Bb
After ten he starts to booze
        Eb         Bb
He gets very sentimental
      F
Oh he sings the buddah blues
Eb Bb               F
He sings the buddah blues
        Bb           Eb
My name Joe  my name Joe
      Bb           Eb  Bb    Eb  Bb
There is a king in Thailand
Eb     F         Eb  Bb      Eb  Bb
And he plays the jazz drum
Bb                Eb      Bb Eb  Bb
He has a fine and healthy son
Eb F      Eb      Bb
Oh no I'm not the one
Eb Bb   F
My name Joe
F
On the wall by the time clock
      Bb
Joe's beaming from a photograph
        Eb       Bb
Someone drew across his face
    F
The waiters began to laugh

Joe picked up a hatchet
       Bb
And he tenderized the wall
    Eb          Bb
And when he got through
                  F
Time clock wasn't punching anymore

The waiters ran for cover
          Bb
The maitre d' began to lisp
    Eb               Bb
The drunkard in the corner
         F
Said his lettuce was not crisp

Owner called immigration
             Bb
Said there's someone you should know
         Eb     Bb
He's an illegal alien
      F
And I think his name is Joe
Eb   Bb                F
Oh I know his name is Joe
        Bb           Eb
My name Joe  my name Joe
      Bb           Eb  Bb    Eb  Bb
There is a king in Thailand
Eb     F         Eb  Bb      Eb  Bb
And he plays the jazz drum
Bb                Eb      Bb Eb  Bb
He has a fine and healthy son
Eb F      Eb      Bb
Oh no I'm not the one
Eb Bb   F
My name Joe
F
Came the man from immigration
          Bb
Said I've got a job to do
     Eb                  Bb
Easy questions easy answers
     F
Just point  me to the kitchen crew

He asked Leroy from Harlem
         Bb
He asked Cisco from Mexico
              Eb               Bb
He asked the white trash from Tennessee
        F
Thet all said my name Joe

My name Joe  my name Joe
F
The maitre d' he sputtered
            Bb
The kitchen crew they roared
     Eb               Bb
And while they were arguing
    F
Joe slipped out the back door

On the beach Joe tries to listen
        Bb
To the heartbeat of a whale
Eb                   Bb
How it echoes his own heartbeat
    
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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 05:30:37 GMT
From: Rick L 
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: CRD: Guinevere Lucy Kaplansky Chords/Lyrics

Lucy Kaplansky   Guinevere    by Robin Batteau


A         D     E         A         D
Guinevere in my castle in Normandy
E          A            D    E         A
Make a new home with me come follow me down
A         D      E         A
Guinevere all my honor and glory
D    E         F#m   D      E           A
Will just be a story of the fall of the crown
F#m                        C#m
Am I some dancing Lancelot who only falls in love
      D                     E       A
With a woman who belongs to someone else
      F#m                     C#m,
Is it just the blood of Paris running through my veins
D                 D/C#       Bm                E
That sees a takes woman  and myself I can't restrain
        F#m
Is this knight of cups in his noble stance
       C#m
Just a jack of clubs  with an eye askance
       D                       D/C#
On the queen of hearts  in her royal blue
       Bm                              E
I may shield the poor but I can't save you
A         D     E         A         D
Guinevere in my castle in Normandy
E          A            D    E         A    E
Make a new home with me come follow me down
A         D      E         A
Guinevere all my honor and glory
D    E         F#m   D      E           A
Will just be a story of the fall of the crown
F#m                           C#m
Golden apples on the mountain this one fell to me
       D             E        A
We are planets in a heartless gravity
F#m
I never chose to make a choice
   C#m
It felt like someone else's voice
D                D/C#         Bm          E
Saying all those crazy things down on one knee
F#m                                    C#m
Cassandra never cast a shadow now it's heading to the shore
D                           D/C#              Bm          E
Oh the face that launched a thousand ships is sailing one more
A         D     E         A         D
Guinevere in my castle in Normandy
E          A            D    E         A     E
Make a new home with me come follow me down
A         D      E         A
Guinevere all my honor and glory
D    E         F#m   D      E           A
Will just be a story of the fall of the crown


>From Lucy Kaplansky The Tide CD
Red House Records 1994
McDuck Music ASCAP  1986

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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 04:48:42 +0000 (GMT)
From: rickl1@IX.netcom.com (Rick L)
Subject: CRD:  Goodnight    Lucy Kaplansky   Chords/Lyrics

Lucy Kaplansky    Goodnight written by Cliff Eberhardt


F                                   C
Sleepless nights don't bother me at all
                          Dm
And if dawn comes I won't worry
D7                             Gm
Something deep inside keeps me awake
A7                                 Dm
I wish that you were here right beside me
F                        C
I recall when I was very young
                     Dm
And I could not fall sleep
   D7                              Gm
My father sang me songs to make me tired
    A7                      Dm
But memories don't come so easily
         Bb        F
So goodnight goodnight
A7                Dm
Wherever you are sleeping
      Bb               F                  C
And I hope that if you dream you dream of me
     Bb       F
Goodnight goodnight
A7               Dm
Wherever you are sleeping
      Bb               F     C           F
And I hope that if you dream you dream of me
F                           C
Now I lie awake and it's no fun
                 Dm
I'm tossing and turning
    D7                              Gm
I'd call you if it weren't so very late
A7                                     Dm
But telephones won't bring you close to me
F                                C
I recall the nights we stayed up late
                     Dm
Wide awake but still dreaming
          D7
There was nothing on this earth
                   Gm
That could make me tired
    A7                    Dm
But memories don't come so easily
         Bb        F
So goodnight goodnight
A7                Dm
Wherever you are sleeping
      Bb               F                  C
And I hope that if you dream you dream of me
     Bb       F
Goodnight goodnight
A7               Dm
Wherever you are sleeping
      Bb               F     C            F
And I hope that if you dream you dream of me
     Bb               F     C            F
And I hope that if you dream you dream of me


>From Lucy Kaplansky The Tide CD
Red House Records 1994
Aixoise Muisc Co(ASCAP)
Cliff Eberhardt Co(ASCAP)

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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 02:15:41 +0000 (GMT)
From: rickl1@IX.netcom.com (Rick L)
Subject: CRD:    Don't Renege On Our Love     Lucy Kaplansky     Chords/Lyrics

Lucy Kaplansky   Don't Renege On Our Love  written by Richard Thompson

A                G     D       A
Remember when we were  hand in hand
A            G                D      A
Remember, we sealed it with a golden band
         A                     G D
Now your eyes don't meet mine
             A                 G D
You've got a pulse like fever
     A                         G D
Do I take you for a lover
   A
Or just a deceiver
E                 D        A
Simple is simple, Plain is plain
       E                       D         A
If you leave me now, You won't come back again
D             E
Don't give up
        A                   G D
Don't renege on our love
        A                   G D
Don't renege on our love
A               G        D      A
Give me just an ounce of sympathy
A          G         D     A
Give me my chains of liberty
A                            G D
There's a rope that binds us
      A                      G D
And I don't want to break it
    A                        G D
If love is a healing
     A
Why should we forsake it
E                 D       A
Hunger is hunger, Need is need
E                 D        A
Am I just another mouth to feed
D                    E
When the game is up
E     A                   G  D
Don't renege on our love
      A                   G  D
Don't renege on our love

SOLO

A                G     D       A
Remember when we were  hand in hand
A            G                D      A
Remember, we sealed it with a golden band
         A                     G D
Now your eyes don't meet mine
             A                 G D
You've got a pulse like fever
     A                         G D
Do I take you for a lover
   A
Or just a deceiver
     E
When my heart breaks
   D               A
It breaks like the weather
       E
If you leave me now
      D          A
It'll thunder forever
D                    E
Oh don't give it up
      A                 G  D
Don't renege on our love.
      A                 G  D
Don't renege on our love.
      A                 G  D   A
Don't renege on our love.


>From Lucy Kaplansky Flesh And Bone CD
Red House Records 1996
Island Music Ltd 1982 BMI

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Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 03:43:09 GMT
From: Rick L 
Subject: CRD:  Break A Train     Lucy Kaplansky    Lyrics/Chords

Lucy Kaplansky   Break A Train   written by Cliff Eberhardt

C                Bm
I'm headed south on a railroad train
F                    C            G
We're pulling out on time and I'm amazed
C      C            Bm
Got my window seat  I got my magazines
F                C               G
Got everything I need except for you
C                Bm
Remember when we took that train out west
F                    C              G
They almost threw us off for acting strange
Am
Made fools  of all the porters
         F                  C
We drank booze out of paper cups
G
You showed me a good time baby
      E7         Am
But I never  got enough
F                         C
You showed me a good time darling
      G         C
But I never got enough
       G
And my heart feels just as  caloused
   C
As some old breakmans hands
G
Been on the job for  years
B7                   Em
He still  don't understand
         F
Why the  towns fade away  like lovers
F
His life has let him dowm
C                               G
You can brake  a train you can break a heart
        Am                       F
But you never learn to like the sound
C                      Bm
I'm sitting all alone  in  a dining car
F                       C             G
I feel like a fool for  ordering this meal
C              Bm
It's no fun without you here
F                   C                    G
I miss your teasing everytime I spill my drink
C
Were pulling in a station
Bm
I wish it was my stop
F                 C                  G
I'll remeber next time to  take the  plane
Am
It just ain't the same without you
        F           C
I was a fool to try now
      G
Now im getting odd looks from a porter
         E                  Am
Like he  never seen a woman cry
       F                        C
Now im getting odd looks from a porter
         G                  C
Like he  never seen a woman cry
       G
And my heart feels just as  caloused
   C
As some old breakmans hands
G
Been on the job for  years
B7                   Em
He still  don't understand
         F
Why the  towns fade away  like lovers
F
His life has let him dowm
C                               G
You can brake  a train you can break a heart
        Am                       F      C
But you never learn to like the sound

>From The Greenwich Village Folk  Festival
Gadfly Records 1996
Burlington, Vt  802-865-2406
Cherry Music(BMI)