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Break Out Bold
Break Out Bold
When I was a little boy this man said to me
Don’t play fools’ games break out bold
Don’t give your family pain and misery
Live your life with love and honesty
Ya take the good from everyone you meet
And you break out bold
Ya break out bold
I’ve seen some things I’d never tell again
Know some people I wouldn’t say is my friend
All I remember is what that man said to me
When I was a little boy down in New Orleans
Ya take the good from everyone you meet
And you break out bold
Ya break out bold
I’ve seen grown men cry
Saw some demise
Heard some lie and say it’s true
Ya take the good from everyone you meet
And you break out bold
Ya take the good from everyone you meet
And you break out bold
Ya take the good from everyone you meet
And you break out bold
Ya break out bold
I’ve seen grown men cry
Saw some demise
Heard some lie and say it’s true
Ya take the good from everyone you meet
And you break out bold
Ya take the good from everyone you meet
And you break out bold
Ya break out bold
Ya break out bold
Ya break out bold
Ya break out bold
Before the Fall
Now that I’ve found myself
The way is clear
After battle fronts all these years
The leaves of change are upon us faced all fear
I am the fruit that is gathered before the fall
Sun shines everyday for one and all
Moon lights the night sky with the stars
Earth sits in this galaxy we all are one
I am the fruit that is gathered before the fall
Now that the waves have calm the sea is at rest
The skies are bright and clear
The isle in the distance could be a place
Where we could rest
Where we could rest
Where we could rest
Now that I’ve found myself the way is so clear
After battle fronts all these years
The leaves of change are upon us faced all fear
I am the fruit that is gathered before the fall
I am the fruit before the fall
Before the fall
Before the fall
Love Made Right
She walks in I’ve never seen a beauty such as she
I’ve never been kissed before in my life
Now that’s love made right
A sleepless dream my imagination runs wild
Like a child with their favorite toy
What a joy it brings
Now that’s love made right
Now love’s made right
Now that’s love made right
Now love’s made right
Love made right love made right
A touch I’ve never had before
Soft as a cloud from a memory stored
I keep close to me
And her scent it’s from a time near yet ancient
As she lay close to me her breath gives me life
Now that’s love made right
Now that’s love made right
Now love’s made right
Now that’s love made right
Now love’s made right
Love’s made right love’s made right
A touch I’ve never had before
Soft as a cloud from a memory stored
I keep close to me
And her scent it’s from a time near yet ancient
As she lay close to me her breath gives me life
Now that’s love made right
Now love’s made right
Now that’s love made right
Now love’s made right
Love made right love made right
Monarch Butterfuly
I will fly across the sea for your love
Where eagles never soar
I will remember you forever when time is nevermore
You are delicate yet so strong
Lips I can’t resist my heart flutters
Eyes are jewel that hypnotize
Love like no other
You flew away from me
Monarch butterfly
Dancing on the clouds to be set free and love will return
I will wait for you to discover what life has in store
If it takes now to forever I’ll be there evermore
You are delicate yet so strong
Lips I can’t resist my heart flutters
Eyes are jewel that hypnotize
Love like no other
You flew away from me
Monarch butterfly
Dancing on the clouds to be set free and love will return
Love will fly away to return love will fly away
Love will fly away away to return to return
I will fly across the sea for your love
Where eagles never soar
I will remember you forever when time is nevermore
You are delicate yet so strong
Lips I can’t resist my heart flutters
Eyes are jewels that hypnotize
Love like no other
You flew away from me
Monarch butterfly
Dancing on the clouds to be set free and love will return
Set free and love will return
Love will fly away to return love will fly away
Love will fly away to return
Love will fly away to return
Twice As Long
I remember those days
I remember those times
We shared breakfast in the middle of the night
My friend my kin my country
Those times are gone removed far from home
Wondering abroad in some unknown places
Wanting for love ones a familiar face
In these streets there is a message
It echoes like a quiet storm
Count all your blessings
Cause the road home is twice as long
I remember those days
I remember those nights
We parade down political lines
My friend my kin my country
The fight is so strong with abundant martyrdom
We stand from south liberty to the ninth ward
Wanting for love ones a familiar face
In these streets there is a message
It echoes like a quiet storm
Count all your blessings
Cause the road is twice as long
In these streets there is a message
It echoes like a quiet storm
Count all your blessings
Cause the road home is twice as long
The road home is twice as long
The road home is twice as long
The road home is twice as long
The road home is twice as long
Only in New Orleans
People dancing in the streets
Buck jumping to the beat
Bass drum and tuba
Trumpet black so sweet
All shape size and colors
We are all brothers
Can’t find this no where
Nowhere on the earth
Only New Orleans
Only New Orleans
Only New Orleans
Call um out on a Sunday
Any day of the week
We bring em down when they die
Wake em when they sleep
When ya hear the sound
You run to your door
Shake what ya mama gave you
Then you shake a lil more
Can’t find this nowhere
Nowhere on the earth
Only New Orleans
Only New Orleans
Only New Orleans
Can’t find this nowhere
Nowhere on the earth
Only New Orleans
Only New Orleans
Social and pleasure clubs with styles unique
Young and old alike dance to compete
They jump on trucks and cars
They stop at every bar
Shine the light on them cause all of them are stars
Can’t find this nowhere
Nowhere on the earth
Only New Orleans
Only New Orleans
Only New Orleans
Wavering Skies
They took a walk down the street
In the New Orleans August heat
The businessman and the thief
They both dress the same
Thief asked businessman what’s your plans
He said I’m looking for a time that’s good
Want to take a drink on Bourbon
And eat Frenchmen Street food
O yeah o yeah o yeah
Oh the thief called his consort they both had a plan
Wanna take the goods and services from the businessman
She gave him a look so sensual his passion was on the rise
Never knew their plans never to realize
They took him down to the water
And bathe him when it rise
Baptized in the Mississippi under wavering skies
Under wavering skies
Under wavering skies
Under wavering skies
Under wavering skies
Under wavering skies
Under wavering skies
Oh the businessman he woke the next day alone in his bed
He had to retrieve his dignity had to ponder his faith
Cause he lost all he had in the night gone by
In the streets New Orleans’ streets he left pride
He exposed his hand shown all his cards
The dealer said we’re all in no one knows who we are
They took him down to the water bathe him when it rise
Baptized in the Mississippi under wavering skies
They took him down to the water
And bathe him when it rise
Baptized in the Mississippi under wavering skies
Under wavering skies
Under wavering skies
Under wavering skies
You Never Know
Don’t let the sun catch you
When the night is fade
A new day has come
You never know what unfolds
When the role you’ve played is done
The sun never goes down in the town
At river bend Mississippi flows music grows
Night and day you feel it to the end
Don’t let the sun catch you when the night is fade
A new day has come
You never know what unfolds
When the role you’ve played is done
Oak trees line Esplanade
From the river to the park
The stories they hold are never told
To those who walk the promenade
They dance in the street
Drink in their sleep
Visit this graveyard city that houses Marie
Don’t let the sun catch you
When the night is fade
A new day has come
You never know what unfold
When the role you’ve played is done
Don’t let the sun catch you
When the night is fade
A new day has come
You never know what unfold
When the role you’ve played is done
And when you get to the end
Remember no foe or friend
You’ve heard the folklore music grows
You can’t call them by name
They dance in the street
Drink in their sleep
Visit this graveyard city that houses Marie
Don’t let the sun catch you
When the night is fade
A new day has come
You never know what unfold
When the role you’ve played is done
You never know what unfold
When the role you’ve played is done
You never know what unfold
When the role you’ve played is done
Only New Orleans
How is Love to Define
How can I reach you sit and talk
Time and space between ethereal thought
And how is love to define
Mere words I create in these lines
You move across my astral mind
Petals from flowers of all kind
A scent I remember dream to keep
Time when hearts can’t be breached
O the stars I’ve counted in your eyes
Lips a fruit that can’t be described
My mind has made love to you
On a distant planet thousand suns of blue
Your voice the sound love’s melody
I dreamt this dream from the bottom of the sea
And I said how is love to define
Mere words I create in these lines
How is love to define
Mere words I create in these lines
O the stars I’ve counted in your eyes
Lips a fruit that can’t be described
My mind has made love to you
On a distant planet thousand suns of blue
Your voice the sound love’s melody
I dreamt this dream from the bottom of the sea
And I said how is love to define
Mere words I create in these lines
How is love to define
Mere words I create in these lines
How is love to define
How is love to define
How is love to define
How is love to defineAt the Crossroads
Woke up in this dream grinding an oar
Going down rivers and streams once familiar
And I heard a cry out from the wilderness
Someone needed love like they never had yet
And as far as I could see abandoned souls
And all signs were written no love for the poor
At the crossroads we pray
We’re at the crossroads everyday
I was taken by the wind and placed on solid ground
In a familiar place that’s now a ghost town
I heard a voice say that love is on the way
As sure as the sun comes for the new day
And as far as I could see abandoned souls
And all signs were written no love for the poor
At the crossroads we prayed
We’re at the crossroads every day
At the crossroads
There we prayed
And all signs were written
Truth Shall Set You Free
When I was a little boy down in the Treme
I would sit in my window and listen what ole folks say
Fruit man would pass by shouting loud
I got banana peaches oranges with pride
Born in the middle I was criticized
I ran away from home at age five
Burned my candle on both sides
If you ain’t got the proof don’t you make up a lie
Because the truth gon set you free
Most people never be free
My great grandma told me long time ago
Don’t you take no wooden nickles son you’ll go broke
Believe half of what you see none of what you hear
Most people live their lives filled with fear
I’ve got a knife a gun a razor blade
I’m gonna cut I’m gonna shoot you slice yo ass dead
Then I’m gon raise you from the grave and give you bread
Never forget what the ole folks said they said
The truth gon set you free
Most people never be free
Me and my best friend would rob the town
He caught a case now he’s doing time
Down in Angola spend the rest of his life
Some get a lil lucky some pay the full price
I told my son son don’t you go down that road
Nuff traps set enough lives are stole
He thanked me and went on his way
Never forget what the ole folks said they said
The truth gon set you free
Most people never be free
The truth gon set you free
Most people never be free
I’ve got a knife a gun a razor blade
I’m gonna cut I’m gonna shoot you slice yo ass dead
Gypsy Woman
Gypsy woman got my mind in a wonder
Heart pound like thunder can’t hardly breathe
Caramel mocha gypsy queen
Down by the river down in New Orleans
I called her out she said don’t make a scene
Caramel mocha gypsy queen
Caramel mocha gypsy queen
And she said take yo time got to find motive
Take yo time got to move slowly slowly slowly
I saw her in the sky from across the sea
Cleopatra Nola Mississippi queen
Caramel mocha gypsy queen
She said I’ll come to you tonight keep you company
I’ll come to you tonight boy in your dreams
Caramel mocha gypsy queen
Caramel mocha gypsy queen
And she said take yo time got to find motive
Take yo time got to move slowly slowly slowly
I saw her in the sky from across the sea
Cleopatra Nola Mississippi queen
Caramel mocha gypsy queen
She said I’ll come to you tonight keep you company
I’ll come to you tonight boy in your dreams
Caramel mocha gypsy queen
Caramel mocha gypsy queen
And she said take yo time got to find motive
Take yo time got to move slowly
She said take yo time got to find motive
Take yo time got to move slowly
Gris Gris Suit
A dash of cayenne to the rue
Gon put on my gris gris suit
Boil the gumbo hot and steady
Don’t care if Freddy ready
Gon pray at that old cemetery
Down off Claiborne where she’s buried
If you don’t know you betta ask somebody
Gon build a fire on the bayou
When the black cat scratch at two
Under a full moon that’s blue
Chant the magic word kufaru
A dash of cayenne to the rue
Gon put on my gris gris suit
Gon put it on baby
Black top hat black suit too
Same ole rod that Moses threw
I’m gon get them bones out the graveyard for you
Can’t see my eyes black shades too
Gon pray at that old cemetery
Down off Claiborne where she’s buried
Black top hat black suit too
Same ole rod that Moses threw
I’m gon get them bones out the graveyard for you
Can’t see my eyes black shades too
Gon pray at that old cemetery
Down off Claiborne where she’s buried
A dash of cayenne to the rue
Gon put on my gris gris suit
Gon put it on baby
My gris gris suit
Freedom Riders
Dodie raised the flag and she sighed
Jerome stood at her side
Giants walk among us unassuming we walk by
Sitting at the table
Stand for the fight
God created man liberated with inalienable rights
And we say ride on freedom riders ride on
Oooo ride on freedom riders ride on
Ride on freedom riders ride on
Oooo ride on freedom riders ride on
They live today sweat and bone
While all the other martyrs have gone home
Titles don’t you give me give me freedom liberty
Sitting at the table
Stand for the fight
God created man liberated with inalienable rights
And we say ride on freedom rider ride on
Oooo ride on freedom riders ride on
Ride on freedom riders ride on
Oooo ride on freedom riders ride on
You take this bus ride with me no um bow
Dial this number and say no um bow
In the face of bigotry say no um bow
We all didn’t land here on a slave ship no um bow
We left ancient monuments no um bow
Love has no fear no um bow
And we say ride on freedom riders ride on
Oooo ride on freedom riders ride on
Ride on freedom riders ride on
Ride on freedom riders ride on
Oooo ride on freedom riders ride on
You take this bus ride with me no um bow
Dial this number and say no um bow