Jacky Don Tucker was my daddy’s little brother
And at seventeen he jumped the fence
He joined a rock ‘n roll band, got a tattoo on his hand
Granny said he never had a lick of sense
‘Cause by the time he turned seven he was a stealin’ watermelons
Playin’ house with the girl next door
Drinkin’ muscadine wine by the time he was nine
Sneakin’ out and smokin’ cigarettes under the porch

Chorus:
He was a melon stealin’, cop-a-feelin’, daredevil fool
A do-it-anywayin’, playin’ hooky from school
A water tower poet, class of ’73
He’d say by God you better know it if you’re runnin’ with me
‘Cause I’m a skinny dippin’ finger flippin’ song of a gun
Play by the rules, you gonna miss all the fun

He was always drag racin’ and he kept the sheriff chasin’
But they never caught ole Jacky Don
‘Cause he was nobody’s fool, the definition of cool
He even cut a donut on the courthouse lawn
He created quite a scandal that the locals couldn’t handle
When he took up with the preacher’s baby girl
They bought a new double wide and on their wedding night
Aunt Jenny went to rockin’ Uncle Jacky Don’s world

Repeat Chorus

Play by the rules, you’re gonna miss all the fun
Play by the rules, you’re gonna miss all the fun

I was down in Nashville just payin’ my dues
Headed for Ohio when I read the news
‘Bout the people demonstrating ‘gainst the President’s views
Four were shot down by the National Guard troops
Just like Uncle Sam I put on my fighting shoes
School shot down cause there’s no more to lose
Now we’re headed to D.C. two by twos
Cause those low down, profound, killin’ four blues

Lookin’ for my Congressman to make it well known
But the politicians already won’t answer his telephone
Making in his office while they’re shooting kids down at home
Worried about the voters but he won’t be worried long

Silent majority still glued to the tube
Say CIA ain’t lookin’, FBI come unglued
Shot some more in Jackson just to show the world what they can do
While we’re marching to D.C. cause there’s too much to do

Give peace a chance
Give peace a chance
There’s no turnin’ back my friend
There’s no turnin’ back

When the President said that the tear gas is gone
The army’s pulled out leavin’ blood on the ground
The streets are empty and the crying’s died down
You can be President if no one’s around
Just like Kow Kow, you’ve heard it before
Get back gangster, don’t you open that door
Space Cowboy’s back to tell you the score
Nothing any good is gonna come from a war
Got those low down, profound, killin’ four blues

Give peace a chance
Give peace a chance
Give peace a chance

Stop the bus
I wanna be lonely
When seconds pass slowly
And years go flying by
You gotta stop the bus
I’ll get off here
Enough’s enough
I’m leaving this factory

All she wants
Is food on the table
I won’t be able
To bring it home
All she wants, come on,
All I need is free
I’m a factory

(chorus):
Did Mother Nature tell you
Boy you come and go as you please
That’s what she said to me
Big brother got the keys
And I got Jackson Cannery

Millionaires and mill rats live side by side here,
Messed up my brother’s mind
He’s far from earth
What’s he worth
The same as you or me
In this factory

(chorus)

It’s 4 in the morning
Mother don’t know
That I’m going far away
She’s whispering to the moon
I hope he don’t join you soon

Baby boss
Climbs up on his soapbox
But Great Caesar’s ghost
Knows what’s best for me
He says stop the bus

(chorus)

Driving home she grabs something to eat
Turns a corner and drives down her street
Into a row of houses she just melts away
Like the scenery in another man?s play
Into a house where the blinds are closed
To keep from seeing things she don?t wanna know
She pulls the blinds and looks out on the street
The cool of the night takes the edge off the heat

In the Jackson Cage
Down in the Jackson Cage
You can try with all your might
But you?re reminded every night
That you been judged and handed life
Down in the Jackson Cage

Every day ends in wasted motion
Just crossed swords on the killing floor
To settle back is to settle without knowing
The hard edge that you?re settling for
Because there?s always just one more day
And it?s always gonna be that way
Little girl you?ve been down here so long
I can tell by the way that you move you belong to

The Jackson Cage
Down in Jackson Cage
And it don?t matter just what you say
Are you tough enough to play the game they play
Or will you just do your time and fade away
Down into the Jackson Cage

Baby there?s nights when I dream of a better world
But I wake up so downhearted girl
I see you feeling so tired and confused
I wonder what it?s worth to me or you
Just waiting to see some sun
Never knowing if that day will ever come
Left alone standing out on the street
Till you become the hand that turns the key down in

Jackson Cage
Down in Jackson Cage
Well darlin? can you understand
The way that they will turn a man
Into a stranger to waste away
Down in the Jackson Cage

Well i beat a bad rap when i skip a soul trap
Just trippin’ and laughin’ at the crap
Dap is what i get the best skins that i hit
You know we rock the fuckin’ joint and we split
Singin’ an ryhmin’s what i’m better for
When i describe i’m a scribe with a metaphor
I use a simile lightly ‘cuz that shits played
The common way most ryhmes are made, ya know
I rock like this i flow like that
But all those comparisons are just that
Kickin’ different styles i’ll be right here
Today, tomorrow, next week and next year
I always say what i feel and that is a promise
Nothing in life is above being honest
Sauna is cool compared to being on stage
But that’s how it’s gotta go in the stone age

The fame in my game i name rapture
Like a polished rock i’ll make it shine for sure
Word is that i’ve travelled become unravelled
I been around the world baby gimme an apple
I’ll be your boogie man rather than son-of-sam
What i am is what i am
Though we don’t have too long to love a day a night
We only love those who,love us right back

The kid is smart the kid is clever
Stompin’ in jack-o-lantern’s weather
Backpack strapped ‘cuz the world is cold
Headphones pumpin’ don’t ya know

The kid is smart the kid is clever
Stompin’ in jack-o-latern’s weather
Rocks his hood and playes it mellow
While maple leaves change into yellow

And oh shit damn honey at it again
Tryin’ to beat my high score since the age of ten
See my high score flash on the back glass
I was malcontented doug in gifted class
Now heres the deal we came to heal we gonna rock in rio
Oh no it’s not a joke it’s how we feel
Put to test like a sugar ray scientist
I’m always dancing in my sunday best
I’m betting on my bliss and my path is lit’ see
The microphone is live and i’m rockin’ my body
Smooth like reggie miller in an airborne freeze frame
Funky like the kung-fu that can put you to shame

CHORUS

I’m like hey wait a minute
Give a check on two then i’ ready to begin it
With a boom boom bap coming outta your trunkies
Give a fat shout out to the phunk junkeez
Striken like a cancer taken chances
But i love to see the girl windin’ like the belly dancer
Standin’ up front with a tight stomach showin
Me on stage singin, flowin
We just kickin’ it live we just kickin’ it live
‘Cuz if you can’t kick it live you gonna die
‘Fraid so punk so quit talkin’ junk
You need a live show like a ball player needs a dunk

From his army confessions of his military days
You still carry the shrapnel you’re shell-shocked and dazed
Dear Johnny have you lost your way
Or like denim and leather are you faded and frayed

Institute lackies with hot bourbon breath
White coats and needles Johnny like to scare you to death
Dear Johnny do you feel your best
When you’re strung out at night on your morphine and meth

Jackknife Johnny you’re a floor moppin’ flunkie
Tool of a dagger’s drawn world
Jackknife Johnny them old vets gotta hate you
For bringing home that V.C. girl
Jackknife Johnny welcome to our world

From the tone deaf hearing of the draft board game
You were washing cars down in Dallas when the holocaust came
Dear Johnny your excuse was lame
All your friends sleep in boxes while you sleep in chains

Jackknife Johnny you’re a bad jungle monkey
Tool of a dagger’s drawn world
Jackknife Johnny them old vets gotta hate you
For bringing home that V.C. girl
Jackknife Johnny welcome to our world

Jackknife Johnny you’re a floor moppin’ flunkie
Tool of a dagger’s drawn world
Jackknife Johnny them old vets gotta hate you
For bringing home that V.C. girl
Jackknife Johnny welcome to our world

Jackknife Johnny you’re a bad jungle monkey
Tool of a dagger’s drawn world
Jackknife Johnny them old vets gotta hate you
For bringing home that V.C. girl
Jackknife Johnny

A Bouvier till her wedding day
shots rang out the police came
mama layed me on the front lawn
and prayed for Jackie’s strength
feeling old by 21
never thought my day would come
my bridesmaids getting laid
I pray for Jackie’s strength
make me laugh
say you know what you want
you said we were the real thing
so I show you some more and I learn
what black magic can do
make me laugh
say you know you can turn
me into the real thing
so I show you some more and I learn

stickers licked on lunch boxes
worshipping David Cassidy
yeah I mooned him once on Donna’s box
she’s still in recovery
sleep-overs Beene’s got some pot
you’re only popular with anorexia
so I turn myself inside out
in hope someone will see

make me laugh
say you know what you want
you said we were the real thing
so I show you some more and I learn
what black magic can do
make me laugh
say you know you can turn
me into the real thing
so I show you some more
and I learn

I got lost on my wedding day
typical, the police came
but virgins always get backstage
no matter what they’ve got to say
if you love enough you’ll lie alot
guess they did in Camelot
mama’s waiting on my front lawn
I pray I pray I pray
for Jackie’s Strength

I?d put a liittle love note in a bottle throw it off the Bay Street
Bridge
Watch it glide along the willows
I?d run along the bank with the other kids
If that bottle didn?t hang up on the stones
It would ride that river with a will of its own
It?d go underground and come up in the crecek behind

Jackie?s house, Jackie?s house
I?d hang around until Jackie came out
My hands would shake my heart would ache
I didn?t know what is was but I first felt love
Behind Jackie?s house

You could hear a pin drop in that parlor it was horsechair chairs and old
lace
Jackie sat beside me like a statue
The other kids were out playing kids?games
Those funny feelings strage and unknown
They would rise like the river with a will of their own
With the risk I took when I first stole a look into

Jackie?s eyes, Jackie?s eyes
I saw forever like an endless sky
My hands would shake my heart would ache
I didn?t know what is was but I first saw love
Behind Jackie?s eyes

After all this time Jackie?s heart?s still mine
And the love keeps on flowing behind Jackie?s house, oh …
Now our little ones they laugh and run down by the creek in the summer
sun
Jackie?s and me and the years agree
We know what it is, it?s love and it lives here
In Jackie?s house oh and in Jackie?s eyes
Oh in Jackie?s heart and mine

Da, da, da, da, da,
Jackie Wilson said
It was “Reet-Petite”
Kinda love you got
Knock me off my feet
Let it all hang out
Oh, let it all hang out.
And you know
I’m so wired-up
Don’t need no coffee in my cup
Let it all hang out
Let it all hang out.
Watch this:
Ding-a-ling-a-ling
Ding-a-ling-a-ling-ding
Ding-a-ling-a-ling
Ding-a-ling-a-ling-ding
Do-da-do-da
I’m in heaven, I’m in heaven
I’m in heaven, when you smile
When you smile, when you smile
When you smile.
And when you walk
Across the road
You make my heart go
Boom-boom-boom
Let it all hang out
Baby, let it all hang out
And ev’ry time
You look that way
Honey chile, you make my day
Let it all hang out
Like the man said: let it all hang out.

Watch this:
Ding-a-ling-a-ling … etc.

So you went to a party at Jacqualine Onassis
If you’re so amart why don’t you wear glasses
So you can see what you’re doin’ to me
So you can see what you’re doin’ to me
So you can see what tomorrow might bring

Underneath your breath you know I heard you cussin’
You were talkin’ to my second cousin
Were you talkin’ about me
Were you talkin’ about me
You better put on your glasses so you can see
So you can see what tomorrow might bring

Can your daddy get us backstage passes
You know that we love to dance
Can your daddy give us backstage passes
With all his political power
With all his political power
It seems to me like you could dance better than you do

So you went to a party at Jacqualine Onassis
If you’re so smart why don’t you wear glasses
So you can see what the future might bring
So you can see what tomorrow might be