Joe Cocker Album

Dear landlord
Please don't put a price on my soul
My burden is heavy
My dreams are beyond control
When that steamboat whistle blows
I'm gonna give you all I got to give
And I do hope you receive it well
Depending on the way you feel that you live.

Dear landlord
Please heed these words that I speak
I know you've suffered much
But in this you are not so unique
All of us, at times we might work too hard
To have it too fast and too much
And anyone can fill his life up
With things he can see but he just cannot touch.

Dear landlord
Please don't dismiss my case
I'm not about to argue
I'm not about to move to no other place
Now, each of us has his own special gift
And you know this was meant to be true
And if you don't underestimate me
I won't underestimate you.

Like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
Like a worm on a hook,
like a knight from some old fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee.
If I, if I have been unkind,
I hope that you can just let it go by.
If I, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you.

Like a baby, stillborn,
like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me.
But I swear by this song
and by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee.
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch,
he said to me, "You must not ask for so much."
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,
she cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?"

Oh like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.

Well lawdy, lawdy, lawdy miss clawdy
Girl you sure look good to me
But please don't excite me baby
I know it can't be me

Well as a girl you want my money
Yeah but you just won't treat me right
You like to ball every morning
Don't come home till late at night

Oh gonna tell, tell my mama
Lord, I swear girl what you been to me
I'm gonna tell everybody that I'm down in misery

So bye, bye, bye, baby
Girl, I won't be comin' no more
Goodbye little darlin' down the road I'll go
So, bye, bye, bye baby
Girl, I won't be comin' no more
Goodbye little darlin' down the road I'll go

She came in through the bathroom window
Protected by a silver spoon
But now she sucks her thumb and wanders
By the banks of her own lagoon

Didn't anybody tell her?
Didn't anybody see?
Sunday's on the phone to Monday,
Tuesday's on the phone to me

She said she'd always been a dancer
She worked at 15 clubs a day
And though she thought I knew the answer
Well I knew what I could not say.

And so I quit the police department
And got myself a steady job
And though she tried her best to help me
She could steal but she could not rob

Didn't anybody tell her?
Didn't anybody see?
Sunday's on the phone to Monday,
Tuesday's on the phone to me
Oh yeah.

Two train tickets into L.A.
One round trip the other way
Oh, I get the feelin' when forever calls
I get the feelin' when forever calls

Home trip ticket sail away
Hand grip, Hitchcoock Railway
Soft ride, made for comfort
Been tried, guaranteed passaport

Hitchcoock Railway, please don't fail to pay
Hey, I'm gonna ride, I'm gonna testify
Get my soul, lift my mind

Good stop, good day
Hitchcoock Railway

Free fare, conductor's comim
Prepare, better start runnin'
On time, hold you through now
State line, I've been convicted

Quick stop, good day
Hitchcoock Railway

Please hold on
Ooh, somebody take a train ride
Ooh, leap on

Two train tickets into L.A.
One round trip the other way
Oh, I get the feelin' where the river falls
I get the feelin' where the river falls

Home trip ticket sail away
Hand grip, Hitchcoock Railway
Soft ride, made for comfort
Been tried, guaranteed passaport

Hitchcoock Railway, please don't fail to pay
Hey, I'm gonna ride, I'm gonna testify
Get my soul, lift my mind

Good stop, good day
Hitchcoock Railway

I'm gonna take the safe way home, oh alright
I'm gonna ride a train back home
I'm gonna buy me a ticket at a station
Don't want to go on a train tonight

On a train tonight
On a train tonight
On a train tonight
...

[obviously, this is just a draft]
[spoken lines]

If you glad that [?] you've got nothing to say
If you glad that you've nowhere to pray
Oh, baby, that's your business now

If you glad that you've got nothing to do
Don't you know I depend on you
Hey, baby, that's your business now

When it's all over and you're lying in [...]
And then you start to feel [...]
Don't feel uneasy, just give her a knee
She's just some woman trying to get some speed, yeah

If you glad that you've got nothing to feel
If you glad that [...] so real
Hey, baby, somebody shine on me
Lay down.

Back into bridge [?]
When that's all over and you're sitting it your [...]
[...] that sweet old [...] above
Oh, don't feel uneasy, just give her a knee [? (get on your knees)].
Just some woman trying to get some speed, Lord.

If you glad that you've got nothing to hide
If you glad that you've got nothing to [...]
Hey, baby, that's your business now

If you glad that you've got nowhere to weep
If you glad that you've got nothing to [...]
Hey, sweetie, that's your business now

If you glad
Oh, if you glad
[...] don't feel bad

If you glad
Oh, if you glad
If you glad than don't feel bad

Something in the way she moves
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way she woos me

I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe her now

Somewhere in her smile she knows
That I don't need no other lover
Something in her style that shows me

Don't want to leave her now
You know I believe her now

You're asking me will my love grow
I don't know, I don't know
You stick around now it may show
I don't know, I don't know

Something in the way she knows
And all I have to do is think of her
Something in the things she shows me

Don't want to leave her now
You know I believe her now

Woman of the country now I've found you
Longing in your soft and fertile delta.
And I whisper sighs to satisfy your longing
for the warmth and tender shelter of my body.
Oh you're my, yes you're my Delta Lady
Yes, you're my, me oh my, Delta Lady.

Please don't ask how many times I found you
Standing wet and naked in the garden.
And I think of days and diff'rent ways I held you,
Held you closely to me, yes our heart was beating.
Oh you're my .....

Oh, and I'm over here in England;
But I think of you, think about you ....
Because I love you,

There are concrete mountains in the city
And pretty city women live inside them.
And yet it seems the city scene is lacking.
I'm so glad you're waiting for me in the country.
Oh you're my ....

Hello, little friend
Oh, It's good to see you back again
I'm very happy that you're bigger than me

In such important ways you overlook
the hung up and thoughtless things I say

My dear funny friend
You may be the only one that's ever been
Even when I use you see through me every line
You keep marking time
Just waiting for a friendly chance to shut the blind

Yeah, wait a minute
Oh, you are a friend of mine [backvocals]
... my sweet lord ...
Oh, darling, I say, you are a friend of mine

But if by some chance that might've slipped my mind
Little darling, I hope that you will set me straight
Don't hesitate to sharpen my reality
The hour's late ...

My dear little friend,
I'm sure you're the only one that's ever been
And if I fall again I hope that I'll find
You standing close by
Or just waiting for a friendly chance to right my mind
Yeah please wait a minute darling
Oh, you are a friend of mine [backvocals]

I said, wait for me
Oh, I love you
Don't you know, you are a friend of mine [backvocals]
If you let it in
I said, oh my sweet oh Lord, hey you are a friend of mine [backvocals]

I can tell it by the way
I said Hey! Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh
You are a friend of mine [backvocals]

Backvocals:
Darling, you are a friend of
Darling, you are a friend of
Darling, you are a friend of mine

Come
And talk of all the things we did today
Here
And laugh about our funny little ways
While we have a few minutes to breathe
Then I know that it's time you must leave

But darling be home soon
I couldn't bear to wait an extra minute if you dawdled
My darling be home soon
It's not just these few hours but I've been waiting since I toddled
For the great relief of having you to talk to

And now
A quarter of my life is almost past
I think I've come to see myself at last
And I see that the time spent confused
Was the time that I spent without you
And I feel myself in bloom

So darling be home soon
I couldn't bear to wait an extra minute if you dawdled
My darling be home soon
It's not just these few hours but I've been waiting since I toddled
For the great relief of having you to talk to

Darling be home soon
I couldn't bear to wait an extra minute if you dawdled
My darling be home soon
It's not just these few hours but I've been waiting since I toddled
For the great relief of having you to talk to

Go
And beat your crazy head against the sky
Try
And see beyond the houses and your eyes
It's ok to shoot the moon

So darling
My darling be home soon
I couldn't bear to wait an extra minute if you dawdled
My darling be home soon
It's not just these few hours but I've been waiting since I toddled
For the great relief of having you to talk to