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California 04:02
California On the Sacramento River Shasta Lake is almost gone California you have dried up I think it’s time that I moved on You have always had your deserts Now they run from north to south You’re not fit for habitation I think it’s time that I moved out Chorus: California, California With your palm trees and your sun With your mountains and your deserts California I must run I heard on the radio That it isn’t all gone yet Someone suggested we just drink her up ‘Til there’s no water we can get I think I’ve tasted quite enough Of desert dust in this man’s mouth I think I’ll go up north to Washington Now that their fires have all gone out Chorus I’ll buy me a little cabin On the shores of Puget Sound I will dream of California I’ll dance when rain is falling down When the folks who drank her dry all leave To California I’ll return For now I simply can’t abide them Tell me will they ever learn Chorus You can’t help the things they’ve done You can’t help the things they say You’ve been robbed right from the start I think it’s time I moved away In the California deserts Dreams are waiting out there yet Like a mirage in her great desert There are things you’ll never get Chorus
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When You Come to the End of your day B E When you come to the end of your day B F# When the blues and the golds slowly fade to grey G#m E The song of joy you sang in the morning B F# B Takes a serious tone like you have better things to say F# B You think of fellow humans who are fleeing F# B The consequence of climate change though it seems far, far away E You take pause, speak kind words for your fellow man B F# B Watch the sun dippin’ down at the end of your day You’ve always thought that you’d live a better life You’ve believed social justice would surely find a way But the world turns around like it always has It seems nothing much has changed at the end of your day Chorus: When you come to the end of your day When the blues and the golds slowly fade to grey The song of joy you sang in the morning Takes a serious tone like you have better things to say You have found yourself lost on life’s highways You have wandered the forest, thought you’d never find your way You had faith you’d find light at the end of the journey Now the future seems dark at the end of your day You still wander on life’s hidden highways If you wander the forest, you seldom go alone Now you still have your faith in the a future Where folks will wander a forest that no one else has known Chorus: When you come to the end of your day When the blues and the golds slowly fade to grey The song of joy you sang in the morning Takes a serious tone like you have better things to say
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Eurovision Company Line G D Em I met him on train to nowhere C D G I was hopin’ I could waste some time G D Em I was runnin’ from Paris to Amsterdam C D G On the Eurovision Company Line He was carrying a little guitar case I asked him if he knew how to play He opened the case showed me his guitar Then he slowly put the guitar away Bm C He had a ready smile, a friendly way D We snuck ourselves a little smoke G D Em We laughed all the way to Belgium C D G I listened to his corny jokes Em C It was somewhere in the night near Antwerp D He began to talk about the guitar G D Em He said he could only play it with Sweet Marie C D G He said someday he’s gonna make her a star He started to talk about Sweet Marie He said I had to hear her sing He’d met her in a pub in Liverpool Where he’d been doing his guitar thing They played from Glasgow to Bournemouth They started to write some songs He fell in love with her more or less instantly They couldn’t do anything wrong She had long brown hair, pretty blue eyes When she sang it seemed she cast a spell She met a concert promoter from Amsterdam The beginning of my new friend’s hell They’d been playing in a pub in London Their contract there was set to renew In the morning he woke alone in his bed Soon he had an empty feeling too We got off the train in Amsterdam I saw him walk away through the crowd Right then I was sure I’d never see him again So young, so tall, and so proud One day I heard a voice of an angel Singing on my radio The DJ just called her Sweet Marie She was playing with a fellow named Joe I saw him last week in Seattle He seemed like he was doing well He was playing with his band on a very big stage With a very good story to tell I met him on train to nowhere I was hopin’ I could waste some time I was runnin’ from Paris to Amsterdam On the Eurovision Company Line
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A Piece of Time (key of “F”) He is an old man We live with three good cats We feed the sparrows well He wears an old straw hat We live in our old wood house Bought at a better time Our house could use repair Our cats bring peace of mind Chorus: It’s a piece of life That’s a piece of time A piece of one man By his own design He had a business once He worked each day with pride Built instruments designed By methods he applied He is an old man now Markets aren’t concerned with that I guess they threw him out With just an old straw hat Chorus 2: The rain still falls The sun won’t shine I no longer hope For a better time We’ve got nothing to show No reason you should care Abut a man in a straw hat Nobody said the world was fair I’m sure no one said that Surely there’s no reason to Expect the world that’s here To give a good man what he’s due\
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Dark Days 05:58
In These Dark Days In these dark days In these days when the winter grows chill The banker asks you for another few dollars You don’t have a dollar in your till You’re doing all you can to keep yourself going But you’re not sure if you will In these dark days In these dark days In these dark days There are days when you see the sun shine With the clouds all missing the thermometer drops Til it almost hits the zero line It feels like hope was sucked out with the heat Til you think that now is the time For these dark days In these dark days Chorus: I thought I heard someone whisper revolution It seems like a good day to die I thought I heard footsteps runnin’ to the street I thought I heard a baby cry In these dark days In these dark days In these dark days The poor are poor as they’ve ever been The rich get richer like they always have done It doesn’t seem like that’s gonna end If speech is money, and they’ve got the money You can’t even get in a word In these dark days They sure are dark days In these dark days All the bourgeoisie can pretend That life is pretty good cause life is pretty good If your part of the stick isn’t sharpened If you don’t care about the rest of your tribe Can you expect them to care about you? In these dark days In these dark days Chorus: In these dark days I’ve never been to this place before It seems like a place I read about in a book It was a place I just couldn’t ignore There were kings, there were people Bein’ pushed by the kings until the people couldn’t take it anymore Those were dark days Like these dark days In these dark days I’ve been waking in the night from bad dreams Of guillotines and heads that are rollin’ in the streets I hear the echoes of desperate screams If you don’t care about your fellow man Can you expect them to care about you? In these dark days In these dark days Chorus: I thought I heard someone whisper revolution It seems like a good day to die I thought I heard footsteps runnin’ to the street I thought I heard a baby cry I heard someone say let them have a little cake They didn’t think anybody would hear Now they’re staring at the ground beneath a guillotine blade Their body drenched in sweat from their fear Tell me who’s going to light that match Who’s going to watch it burn No more standing with your hands in your pockets Baby maybe now it’s your turn In these dark days In these dark days In these dark days In these dark days In these dark days In these dark days In these dark days In these dark days X 2
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Everybody Needs a Little Love Chorus: Everybody needs a little comfort now and then. Everybody needs a little love. Everybody needs to feel alright with things. It doesn’t always happen, Doesn’t always go easy, Sometimes it goes sideways down a long dirt road. Still everybody needs a little help now and then, Everybody needs a little love. You can feel alright, You’ve got a pretty good hand You don’t what the dealers gonna throw. One day you’re sitting pretty And the money’s rolling in. You think you’ve got the cards but you don’t know. Instrumental Chorus You can see other people, Those people see you. You don’t know what those other people know. They don’t know you from Adam, You don’t know them, You’ll get to know them if you take it slow. Instrumental Chorus It’s a very nice spring. The planting's going well. You’re hoping everything you planted grows. There could be a tornado, Or the river might flood, Still you planted through the things that you can’t know. Instrumental Chorus Repeat: Everybody needs a little comfort now and then Everybody needs a little love Instrumental and out
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Initiation Rites You say it’s something that I called you. The only thing I’ve called you is my friend. The war is longtime over. It’s only in your mind you kill again. The heroes are forgotten. The use for them was only in their time. Let us drink to fallen comrades; Things have happened in our lives much worse than dying. Was it that kid you killed near Cu Chi When you thought a toy he had was a grenade? Or that old man out of Tay Nihn, There wasn’t anybody’s life for you to save. Was it your friend from New York City? He finally killed the pain of this life’s hell. You can’t help it but remember, And there’s noone here to understand or tell. Chorus: Initiation rites! We turned twenty-one in Vietnam. Initiation rites! Some of us survived to come back home. Some of us are left to wander Through our lives and through this world all alone. Was it the dreams you had of dying In a river of the blood you thought you’d spilled? You can’t forget you were a killer, No matter how you tried to hide your thoughts with pills. Is it the whiskey or the heroin To kill the pain nobody understands? Is it the standing on the outside Where you cannot see a brotherhood of man. Chorus Now it’s early morning We throw our bottles hard against the wall. With the broken glass comes tears, Tears so long you’ve not allowed to fall. How can one year turn to forty, Still those memories will not leave you alone. Our lives are like those shattered bottles And there’s noplace on this earth we can call home. Chorus & repeat Some of us are left to wander Through our lives and through this world all alone.
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FIRE & Ice I haven’t seen the mountains for three summers; I never thought those summer times could end. There were memories that lined Every sentence in your letter And this city here's been taking, And I'm beginning to wonder how much longer I can give. CHORUS Oh, the giving, she's my duty And the taking's just the price. I can feel the winds of freedom blowing Between the cracks in the fire and the ice. I don't know how I survive without the laughter. Oh, there's laughter now and then; it's not the same. My business has not changed. Perhaps I'll never learn the games, And this business keeps on taking, And I'm beginning to wonder how much longer I can give. CHORUS There's a cold wind speaks to me of apprehension. The warm wind's optimistic as your smile. Thanks for the memories that lined Every sentence in your letter, And this feeling that's been taking, Is beginning to give me room so I can smile. CHORUS
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Night of Glass He was starved for affection And too far from heaven to see. Young sailors alone, a long way from home Have a way of finding their own misery. She was a wild one, not much more than a child. He had no way of knowing where she had come from And no way of caring, as the night closed around him And the night put this sailor on trial. The night of glass shattered around them. They rolled in it’s slivers and bled in the dark. The night of glass made up this story. The night of glass shattered their lives and broke everyone’s heart. She was a runaway, Too far from heaven to see. She and her boyfriend whom she had just met Were looking for money that they’d get for free. The two had a gun and cocaine for sale was their bait. A young girl running wild through the cold city lights Lit the young sailor’s mind, so this lonely young sailor Would not even put up a fight. Chorus— Night of glass etc. Blood becomes meaningless After it’s spilled on the ground. The young sailor bled alone in the dark. In the gray dawn of morning his body was found. The police found her and her boyfriend not far from this place. At their trial the judge, when he heard their story, Slammed the door of their cells Until no one out side knows their face. Their night of glass shattered around them. They rolled in it’s slivers, and bled in the dark. Their night of glass made up this story. Their night of glass shattered their lives and broke everyone’s heart. (REPEAT CHORUS AND LAST LINE)
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Red Flashing Lights Chorus: We used to race, see how fast we could go; See how close to the edge we could get. Drive the wrong way on the freeway just to see the red lights flash, Not hoping, still not caring if we’d crash. I’m still tearing up a freeway – guess I missed my exit sign, To me it doesn’t seem it’s been that long a time. It was 3 in the morning on the ninth floor of a building In a night filled up with wine and LSD, Talkin’ to the gods – holding communion with the night; I hardly ever since that night have felt that free. Do you remember what I told you About the spirits in the night? How they would talk to you if only you would listen. The dreams we tried to put to flight dissipated with the night. I’d be talkin’ - then I’d realize that you weren’t listenin’. Chorus: (Last line) I'm still stumblin' down a runway, just hopin' that she'll fly We drove one hundred miles an hour racing with a drunken stranger, Laughin’ about how wasted he was drivin’. We were flyin' in the corners, nearly lost it at that speed. I hardly ever since that night have felt so free. I wonder where that stranger went after we lost him in the night That the spirits cried too loud for us to listen. I’d be talkin’ about the ride – and how the wind felt in my hair; I’d be talkin’ in the night 'cause you weren’t listenin’. Chorus: (Last line) I'm still tumblin' down a spillway with the stars stuck in my eyes. It was somewhere near Gakona – I guess it’s been ten years or so, I was at least 2000 feet above the valley. It was a long Alaskan night - one where the sun just won’t go down, Well, you know I’ve always had a yen for freedom. There was something about the river - And the way it makes you talk above it, There were the guns and just the slightest smell of danger. I thought about those dreams dissipated with the night, How I’d be talkin’ to the night ‘cause you weren’t listening. Chorus: I'm still stumblin' down a runway just hopin' that she'll fly. I'm still tearing up a freeway, guess I missed my exit sign.
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Refugees 03:56
Refugees He keeps moving forward. There is no back. His home has been destroyed, And all of his past. There’s no comfort there that can be found As he finds himself alone On this new, foreign ground Where he’s just a refugee. Chorus: They are refugees. They are running from Being refugees. Still they are refugees, No matter where they go, They will be refugees. His wife is crying. They’ve seen bullets fly. One child is traveling with them. One child of theirs has died. There’s no future. That’s their situation, As the police drive them back From the railway station. Chorus Won’t you feel their pain As they reach another border. To be turned away again As refugees. Fleeing certain death, Find it in your heart To give them refuge At your home and hearth. Chorus 2nd Chorus: They have traveled long, They have crossed the sea. They find themselves alone In a crowded room Now they have no home For they are refugees. repeat 1st chorus I
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Summer One More Time I wouldn’t want to be a caveman With the winter comin’ on. When the weather gets too cold He’s got no house to keep him warm. I don’t want to think about The times to precede fire. When the weather got too cold Even the warm lost their desire. Chorus: I just want to see summer one more time. Fall and spring are alright with me; Summer’s really on my mind. I just want to see summer one more time. Chorus Winter never came easy; I can read everybody’s mind. You’re all wondering if you can go Around just one more time. The snow’s sure to be too heavy, The rain’s sure to be too cold, Someone’s always dyin’, While the rest are getting old. Chorus Fall the leaves kept fallin’ ‘Til the maples all were bare. The squirrels have no place to hide With the leaves no longer there. The days are getting shorter, Now the shortest one’s arrived. Tomorrow will be longer; Aren’t you glad that you survived? Chorus Last summers' sun's remembered; It's warmth upon my skin. We're looking through the seasons 'til summer comes again. Spring will bring new flowers, Will bring a warmer rain. Spring will pull the pages back Where summer's here again.
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They Have Harmony Somewhere out on the road, He bought a motto ring. It said laugh, love, It said dance, and sing. He sent it out in a box, With a note that read. Someday I’ll be home Keep that thought in your head. Chorus: We’ll have harmony. We’ll have love. We’ll have harmony. We’ll have harmony. And we’ll have love. He was in San Francisco. He found another ring. It was gold with a diamond, A pretty little thing. He sent it out in a box, With a note that said. Put this ring on your finger So you will remember. Chorus Now she’s out on the road, With her diamond ring. They play guitars And both of sing. Chorus: X2
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Wire to the World (chorus): I’ve got a wire to the world. I’ve got a wire to the world, lads. I’ve got a wire to the world, lads. I’ve got a wire to the world. I’ve got a wire to the world, I send songs wherever I please. I put my love in the wind, Hear your songs blowing in the breeze. It’s an internet connection, You can hear the power crackle on the line. You can send me down a message Or talk on the telephone line. CHORUS It’s been quiet round here. You can hear the rain fallin’ on the roof. Durham county listens to me, Kickin’ out the local music muse. There’s music comin’ to me; I can hear it on the telephone line. Songs are comin’ down from Scotland; London’s callin’ me all of the time. CHORUS I've got friends up in Russia I know singers from the USA We've got a good thing goin' At least that's what I hear them all say. There's a lady down in Texas She listens to me all of the time I get messages from Saigon Hear them runnin' through my telephone line I’ve got a wire to the world. I’ve got a wire to the world, lads. I’ve got a wire to the world, lads. I’ve got a wire to the world. I've got a wire to the world. I've got a wire to the world. I've got a wire to the world.

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Steve and Kristi Nebel Tacoma, Washington

Steve and Kristi Nebel bring passion, finesse, and beauty with their songs of social justice, knife edge observations, and pure, simple love. They have traveled extensively having done nine tours in UK folk clubs and festivals. They have recorded more than ten CDs, mostly of their own songs. ... more

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