Songs from the Mardi Gras

After the mardi gras

It's getting close to the dawn
So many people have too much fun I'm talking 'bout us girl (?)
Don't you let this man go (?)
Cause it's something we both need

When your head was on my shoulder
I could see it all so clear
Just like some gypsy from my childhood years

And I could go on telling you
It's so warm to have you here
But I was just wondering
What's it gonna be
After the Mardi Gras

??? all this flame
I could see my life to come
But you were right before my eyes
Oh Lord how long must I carry on
Before I let you slip away

And I can feel it getting colder
And I want to hold you near
I'm afraid of what you are to me
And everything you said tonight
It's all that i can hear
Don't leave me standing here on Bourbon Street
After the Mardi Gras

Today your head was on my shoulder
I could see it all so clear
Just like some gypsy from my childhood years

And I could go on telling you
It's so warm to have you here
But I was just wondering
What's it gonna be
After the mardi gras

(F.S. Sharkey / G. Barnhill)

One night in Hollywood

Well I met her down at Jacksons'
That's a bar at the end of my street
Where the lonely hearted congregated
Two fools and a bar stool meet
And she wore a mink from 1924
She gave me a smile
She said it helped her remember
When she was poor
And before she had starred, yeah

She said in a past life
She was the queen of Egypt
Or maybe once a millionaires
But this time around
It's the kingdom of Hollywood
Of which I am the (?)

She said maybe you've seen me at the movies
And maybe on the screen
But right now I'm taken it easy
Like now I'm in a dream
But I'll take another drink, she said
And she lit a cigarette
And the pause in our conversation
Gave here time to forget
Then she looked at me through this masquerade and said
They just don't realize

I can't go on forever
And someday I'll be gone

And all those fan letters
They sure do take their toll
And my agent I finally had on the table
But I'll take another drink, she said
And make it a double this time
And a big ??? passed twelve
And a clock began to chime
Oh I must have my rest
Oh the pressure's great
And all the best

I can't go on forever
And someday I'll be gone

I bought here another drink
And I kissed her on the cheek
She drank it down
And she stumbled to her feet
Well it was the performance of a lifetime
And we stood and gave a hand
To the greatest star in Holywood
To the greatest star in the world

Oh I've got to go she said
My limo waits for me
And I watched her through the window
As she walked silently down the street

And the words keep back (?) away
I can't go on forever
For someday I'll be gone

(F.S. Sharkey / D. Morgan)

Miss you fever

A little light
Stare at the ceiling
For a long time
I can't get comfortable, girl
The moonlight
Like a spotlight
Shined down on this terrible mess I'm in, girl

Oh I'm begging please come back
Oh god a cold sweat attack

Miss you
Miss you fever
My temperature's rising, girl
Miss you
Miss you fever
I feel like I'm dying, girl
Miss you fever

I get up
Pace my room again
???
And look in the mirror
And I reach out
And I touch my face
I wish it was that easy, girl
To wipe away these tears

Oh I need you by my side
Oh god I raise and fight a fight (???)

The heat seeds (???) into my light
And it makes me want to scream
To shout out your name

(F.S. Sharkey / D. Morgan)

Women and I

Woman and I always end up
Breaking each others heart

Ever think for myself on rainy days
With every teardrop from a lover
Just gets washed away
Like the woman who once said
You can never understand my pain
You can never see my misery
My misery

But this sad man
Understands the pain
I can give it
And receive it
I can trust it
And believe it
I can even learn to love it

Woman and I always end up
Breaking each others heart

I just come to resist her
When I touch your face
For another woman's softness
I could never replace

As strength [???] are together
The deep [???] between us
The energy between our skin
The way we made each other cry
The way you stare into my eyes

But I can't give one good reason
Why I act like I do
But I'm scared to death of holding on
Scared to death of letting go
I take it out on you
(F.S. Sharkey / M. Kitson)

Love like blood

Take it easy baby
But take as much as you can
Cause I got all the sweet loving
You could possibly stand
I'll take your tears for drinking water
Make your pain sweet company
You can lay all your burdens on my shoulder
Cause you mean that much to me

I could climb the highest mountain

To show the world I could survive

But without your lovin' baby

I wouldn't even be alive

Cause your love is like blood

Cause your love is like blood to me



Like a river baby

Your love is running through me

And with every beat of our hearts

We're defying gravity

Just a little bit further up your stream

There's a shady resting place

Where you can lose all your blues and your troubles

With just one sweet embrace


Now I could do a million things

Just to prove that I'm a man

But there's only one woman

Who holds my life in her hands

Your love is like blood to me

Your love it's just like blood to me



I don't care what your people say

Over my dead body will they take you away

And any man cutting in on me

Well he just better stop cause I can't spare a drop

Your love is like blood to me

Oh fellows can you see the girl is just my type
Without her love well I would surely go
Down in an a house without any windows

I'm sorry to hear about your concusions
But don't come looking for me for no transfusions
Cause your love is just like blood to me
Now don't you take that away
Cause I ain't going leave
No no no

(J. Hiatt)

I've got news for you

I can see clearly
That he loves you dearly
Just by the way he looks at you
But I've got news for you girl
I love you too

If heaven could send down a guardian angel
To make him someone
You never knew
Then I would pray it true, girl
Cause I love you too

If he ever, ever brakes your heart
Or even once treats you unkind
One false move
And I'll steel you away
And your love will be mine

But now every night
When I go to sleep
Can't tell you the hell I'm going trough
I know he's making love to you girl
And I love you too

(F.S. Sharkey / D. Morgan)

To miss someone

I've been keeping busy since we've said goodbye
but all I do is think about you
The days are quick, the nights are long
I feel them tick, I watch them crawl
I'm petrified of running out of things to do
Though I've never really been in love
I know now what it means to miss someone

I have not been winning since we've said goodbye
Nothing fits and everything feels wrong
I guess it's useless to deny it
I'll admit that I've been crying
Guess I'm not so independent after all
Though I've never really been in love
I know now what it means to miss someone

Sometimes I dream we find each other in the night
And pass each other by
But part of me is running through every vein
Inside of you

I know where you're going
I know where you've been
I know everything about you
The walls inside my head
Will shake the very second that you break
I'd sell my soul to keep yours at my heel
Though I've never really been in love
I know now how it feels to miss someone

(Maria McKee)

Sister Rosa

People go round in circles
Round and round in circles everyday
They don't know where they are going
They don't know there is a better way

Now mam is crying
Pap is waiting
By an open door
For fourty years of sacrifice
Has led to nothing more
But don't worry
I'm gonna make it right

Everyday another dream passes through the night
Wanting to believe in something
That the feel is right
Now Sister Rosa sits alone
She is not afraid
For everyday is a new beginning
Today she's got it made

(F.S. Sharkey / P. Ramacon)

I'll take it back

That little second
That I turned away
I got up and left
As I had nothing to say
That little moment
I brushed you aside
I walked out the door
And you stood there and cried

I take it back
I take it back
What I said to you
And what I put you through
I take it back
To where it all began
Oh baby if I had a chance

And as those years start slipping away
I'm kissed by your memory
More and more everyday
If I was granted just one wish tonight
It would be to return
To where we once last said goodbye

Whatever happens
I just have to believe
That you'll will find it
Find it in your heart
That there's another chance for me

(F.S. Sharkey / B. DiPiero / J. Scott Sherrill)

Cry like a rainy day

How many tears now darling
Must a man let fall
And how many years will it take
To forgive me for ???

You see when I took you for granted
I didn't know just what I had done But I was a fool not to see
That you were the perfect one

I've made some wrong moves that I won't deny
When looking for love
When it was right for my eyes

Now don't you come and tell me
That you've found somebody new
Cause I know it's gonna hurt me
More than I can ever hurt you

And I'm gonna cry like a rainy day
It's just that I
I don't want to see
A good thing slip away
Late at night that's when I hope and pray
That these lonely tears will wash my pain away
And I'm gonna cry like a rainy day

Well I'm gonna get it together
I'm gonna try and make you understand
Put it all down in a letter
And tell you 'bout this friend you knew
Remember these arms
I may held you in
But girl: mark my words
It's gonna be that way again

Now give me one more chance
I'll swear to god I'll be true
But don't you walk away now
I'll never gonna make it without you

(G. Barnhill / K. Greenberg)

She moved through the fair

My young love said to me
My mother won't mind
And my father won't slight you
For your lack of kind
And she stepped away from me
And this she did say
It will not be long now
'til our wedding day

She stepped away from me
And she moved through the fair
And fondly I watched her
Move here and move there
And she made her way homeward
One star awake
As the swan in the evening
Moved over the lake

Last night I dreamt
My young love came in
So softly she entered
Her feet made no din
And she came close beside me
And this she did say
It will not be long now
'til our wedding day
It will not be long now
'til our wedding day

(Traditional)