When I was eight I had a friend
With a pirate smile
Make believe and play pretend
We were innocent and wild
Hopped a fence and slammed the gate
Running down my alleyway
In time to watch Sally’s pigeons fly

We loved to watch them dive and soar
Circle in the sky
Free as a bird from three to four
And never knowing why
Neighbors pulled their wash back in
Put away my Barbie and Ken
Look out overhead
While Sally’s pigeons fly

I had a fool’s confidence
That the world had no boundaries
But instincts and common sense
Come in different quantities

My heart began to
Skip to the beat
Of the boy next door
She had her eye across the street
On someone shy and tall
We lived our dreams
And challenged fate
In tears she told me she was late
And Sally let his pigeons out to fly…

On the dresser sits a frame
With a photograph
Two little girls in ponytails
Some twenty one years back
She left one night with just a nod
Was lost from some back alley job
I close my eyes and Sally’s pigeons fly
She never saw those birds again
And me, I can’t remember when
A pirate smile hasn’t made me cry
I close my eyes
And Sally’s pigeons fly…

Sally go round the roses
Sally go round the roses

The roses they can’t hurt you
I know the roses they can’t hurt you

Sally don’t you go, don’t you go downtown
Sally don’t you go, don’t you go downtown
The saddest thing in the whole wide world
Is to see your baby with another girl
Sally don’t you go, don’t you go downtown

4 bar solo

Sally go round the roses
Sally go round the roses
Sally go round the roses
Sally go round the roses

Sally, you opened out your arms to all those young men.
And girl you had room,
for every one of them.

You’re the only girl.
Who are the only girl on Barry and Third
Sure as hell,
you’re the only one who cares.

So put your hands together for Sally.
She saved all those young men.
Put your hands together for Sally.
She the one who cared for them.

She’s doing our dirty work.
She’s the only one who can.
Doing our dirty work, thirsty world,
one angry day in New York.

Take a look at Dave he was once seventeen,
Zoot suit and shiny shoes.
He ran around town and threw his metholated laughter.
Most of his memories drowned.

But he remembers what his mother used to shout.
She used to shout,
“One day, surely son,
the street are gonna tire you out.”

So put your hands together for Sally.
She’s the one who cared for him.
Put your hands together for Sally.
She was there when his luck was running thin.

She’s doing our dirty work.
She’s the only one who can.
Doing our dirty work, thirsty world,
one angry day in New York.

Tommy had a wife and family,
but the needle came between the love and the hard times.
Thank God for Sally,
she was there through the misery.

Just a place to lay his head.
Just about better off than dead.

She’s doing our dirty work.
She’s the only one who can.
Doing our dirty work, thirsty world,
one angry day…

Vince, came up from the country.
Couldn’t even find himself a room.
Thinking about his babies.
They’re further away than the moon.

With no money but his pride in his pocket.
There’s really no way he can go home.
There’s a picture of his woman in his locket.
Most of all he doesn’t want to be alone.

So put your hands together for Sally.
She’s the one who cared for him.
Put your hands together for Sally.
She was there when his luck was running thin.

She’s doing our dirty work.
She’s the only one who can.
Doing our dirty work, thirsty world,
one angry day in New York.

Salesman, where you gonna go?
To sell all your of your goods today
Salesman, gonna walk along the street, see friends along the way
Well salesman, with your wooden cart that you push along while you walk
Hey, salesman, got a little dog whose tail wags when you talk
You always wear a smile, even though you’ve gotta walk ten miles
Short lifespan, goodtime salesman
Yep, yep salesman got it on the street, whether it’s hot or cold
It’s salesman, well, you work real hard,
Until every part is sold
Salesman as the years go by,
People changing every day
Hey, salesman ’til the end of time you’ll be livin in the same way
You always wear a smile, you love ’em fast and you live wild
Short life span, but ain’t life grand?

Copper kettles, different kinds of tin
There goes salesman and he’s sailing high again
He’s sailing so high, high, sailing so high…

Salesman where you gonna go to sell all of your goods today
Yup, salesman, gonna walk along the street, see friends along the way
Hey, salesman, with your wooden cart that you push along while you walk
Hey, salesman with your secret goods that you push while you talk
You always wear a smile,
Even though you’ve gotta walk a hundred ten miles
Short life span – but the whole thing’s grand
Salesman…

Now, well, I tried the one that you put it in and you have to do it
manually. But I’d like the one that you just plug it in and it does it all
by itself in a real long strand and you cut ’em up. It’s easier to do it
that way because, well, I put all the stuff in there and it keeps flippin’
out. And I can’t get the thing to stick together anything. Coupled with
the fact that I have to stick two of them together to even get on out of it
and they always end up lookin’ like Lucky Strikes.

This is where I say
I’ve had enough
And no one should ever feel
The way that I feel now.
A walking open wound,
A trophy display of bruises
And I don’t believe
That I’m getting any better.

Waiting here with
Hopes the phone will ring
And I’m thinking awful things
And I’m pretty sure
That few would notice.
And this apartment
Is starving for an argument.
Anything at all to break the Silence.

Wandering the house
Like I’ve never wanted out
And this is about
As social as I get now.
And I’m throwing away
The letters that I am writing you
’cause they would never do,
I would never do.

So don’t be a liar,
Don’t say that
“Everything’s working”
When everything’s broken.
And you smile like a saint
But you curse like a sailor
And your eyes say the joke’s on Me.

I’m so blind I cannot see

you’re so warm to me

I’m not there/you are here

Please take me



The saints are down



Life’s so long or short should I say

I am here to get it on with you today

Girl you should know that I love you more than I can say

Sometimes I fear all those things that come down on us anyway



My saints are down Let me tell you why



Hey pretty good what you got to say

Whose fucking life is it anyway

Don’t you know anything about anybody else

You’re so wrapped up in your tiny self

Saints are down/you’re saints are down

Down, they’re down and they’re not coming round

They’re not easily found, and they’re buried in the ground

Yeah they’re buried upside down



Saints are down yes they are

I could hear the shutters banging
In my mother’s house
And the wind just kept blowing off the lake
I ran down to the front door
And told the ambulance man
“Everything’s all right here Sir
There must be some mistake”

CHORUS 1
Saints preserve us
We’re all going down
This ship is sinking in the sea
Saints preserve us
And carry us along
For we may be together in eternity

My father was staring off into another world
And my mother she was laying very still
The baby was crying
And I tried to block it out
Then from somewhere deep inside me
Came a deathly chill

CHORUS 2
Saints preserve us
Wherever we might fall
This is all too big a mystery
I remember I was standing in the corner of the room
Saying “Look at how she’s leaving us
So quietly so soon”

And in her final hour
I saw her reaching up her hands
Like she was asking to be taken high above us
Didn’t she love us?

CHORUS 1

ENDING CHORUS
Saints preserve us
Saints preserve us
Wherever we may fall
Saints preserve us
Saints preserve us
And carry us along

You come to me at midnight and say, ‘It’s dark in here.’
You know you robbed me of my sight, and light is what I fear
I tell you that I can not see but you persist in showing me
those bangles that I paid for long ago

And though my face is smiling I’m really feeling low
and though you say you’re with me I know that it’s not so

Your skin crawls up an octave, your teeth have lost their gleam
The peaches snuggle closer down into the clotted cream
and for some unknown reason my watch begins to chime
and though I beg and plead with you, you tell me it’s not time

And though my face is smiling I’m really feeling low
and though you say you’re with me I know that it’s not so

The sun seeps through the window to see if we’re still dead
to try to throw some light upon the gloom around our bed
At quarter past the doorbell rings, the water faucet drips and sings
and still my reason will not rhyme, and still you tell me it’s not time

And though my face is smiling I’m really feeling low
and though you say you’re with me I know that it’s not so
You really know that it’s not so

Sal’ pa fuera pa la calle, sal’ pa fuera co?o
Sal’ pa fuera vamos, sal’ pa fuera co?o

No es recta de derecha ni de izquierda
es solo un proceso que despierta en la conciencia
que entiende, las fuerzas que manipulan la mente
Un sistema que reprime la fuente creativa controlando la energia
Domesticacion, classificacion, obstruccion
a un nuevo enfoque a la vida sencilla
Un punto de partida

Despierta Conciencia
Despierta, Despierta, Despierta, Despierta

En busca de una experiencia mas directa
Que nos aleja de politicos y sectas
De la gran mentira de la prensa
y con la madre tierra nos connecta
Se sienta en la gente, los numeros son crecientes
se acerca lentamente el renacer de la mente
Cambio interno proyectado a lo externo
La limpieza de un espiritu enfermo

La noche que yo nac?
(cayo la luna, cayo la luna)
cayo en mi cuna a mi
(cayo en la cuna, cayo en la cuna)
y de nacer me repent?

Salga la luna y el sol

La noche que yo te v?
(arriba la luna, la luna y el sol)
como un rayo sent?
(rayo de sol, rayo de sol)
cuando a besarte me atrav?

Salga la luna y el sol

la noche que te ment?
(cayo la luna, cayo la luna)
solito a la cuna me fui
(cayo el tumba, cayo en al tumba)
all? me quedo yo a dormir