Sugarfoot Lyrics

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  • Beyond the Mountain

    Tried to move a mountain- tried to calm the sea
    Tried to love somebody who just don’t love me
    And I feel like a candle trying to light up the sky
    And the cold wind keeps blowing and I’m losing my might

    I know somebody gonna love me someday
    Then sorrow will leave me when love comes to stay
    But I feel like a boxer, eyes too swollen to see
    To go back to my corner and give up this dream

    I called on the Doctor to give me relief
    I called on the preacher, “Please give me some peace.”

    Where is the loving that you promised me?
    Beyond the Mountain, behind the sea

    Beyond the mountain, behind the sea
    Beyond the mountain waiting for me

    Michelle Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Black Motorcycle Boots

    I have been trying – to let you go
    Like my favorite – t-shirt with holes
    After the time we – spent together
    I never thought you’d – leave for another
    Well, I don’t miss you late at night anymore

    I stay alone now without crying
    But then I picture you wearing my my my my my

    Black Motorcycle Boots, oh yea
    Black Motorcycle Boots alright
    I wish I could forget about you even for one night- alright

    Went to the church to – go ask the preacher
    I said hey, daddy – what is the secret?
    Why does love always – end in heartbreak?
    I don’t know how much- more that I can take
    He said give up, girl, now thereÕs nothing you can do
    Can’t live without love, stop your cryin’
    But then I picture you wearing my my my my my

    Black Motorcycle Boots, oh yea
    Black Motorcycle Boots alright
    I wish I could forget about you even for one night

    I just have one thing – left to say
    I hope you get the – heartache you gave
    After the time – we spent together
    I’m looking forward to being strangers with those

    Black Motorcycle Boots, oh yea
    Black Motorcycle Boots, alright
    Black Motorcycle Boots, oh yea
    Black Motorcycle Boots, alright
    I wish I could forget about you even for one night

    Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Down

    The men who run my country are running her into the ground
    A ship lost on the ocean caught in a storm and tumbling down
    Down like corporate bowling pins
    Down like door to door salesmen – Down
    Down like Peter to pay Paul – Down

    Down oiling the devil’s paw

    Elected officials prostituting for the highest contribution
    behind closed doors looking for new ways to interpret the constitution

    Down-sizing the public trust
    Down in big businesses clutch- Down

    Down like Bonnie’s down with Clyde
    Down like gasoline in fire- Down

    Down the worm goes in the wood

    Down there goes the neighborhood – Down

    Down, the death nail in the box

    Down, the children in Iraq – Down

    Down like jet planes in the sky
    Down like smoke gets in your eyes – Down
    Down like soldiers in the sand

    Down like we were in Vietnam- Down

    Hoooooo, hoooooo

    Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Friendly Fire

    When I got discharged I caught the first Greyhound
    It was a lonesome ride, but I was Alabama bound
    I saw the mean sunrise and then I saw the light

    When I hit Mobile I called my friend Jolene
    She was too damn busy to meet me out for a drink
    Heard what she could not say – felt her turn away

    Well, my so- called friends, they all grew strange
    They say I’m different – yes, I guess that I’ve changed
    I learned to take the blow – I don’t take no more
    Cause I got new eyes – I felt the friendly fire

    It hurt so bad, I like to thought I died
    When they turned away I grew numb inside
    Thought I was going home – now I don’t belong
    I felt so betrayed – guess I’ll keep moving on

    The first day home, saw the mean sunrise
    Burned by the friendly fire
    The first day home, saw the mean sunrise
    Burned by the friendly fire

    The first day home, saw the mean sunrise
    Burned by the friendly fire

    The first day home, saw the mean sunrise
    Burned by the friendly fire

    Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Leather Bracelet

    Leather bracelet That you tied on me
    Tethered to your heart By a piece of string
    Sounds silly to say out loud, It keeps me anchored down
    When we’re apart

    Orchid tattoo Permanent design
    Etched upon your arm, How long will you be mine
    Surrender all my life to you, I’m hopelessly in love
    Don’t break my heart, because it is opening to you

    leather bracelet
    A knot that ties two ends
    Tether both our hearts
    Beginning with no end

    Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Miss Miss’ippi

    C’mon Miss Missippi – I got to blow off some steam
    C’mon Miss Missippi – Can you ventilate me?
    My heart just got broken – I been drinkin and smoking
    C’mon Missippi – C’mon Missippi

    I was run out of town- I’m never going back
    I was run out of town on the Southern Crescent click clack
    Fire on The Track
    Fire On the Track
    Fire on The Track

    C’mon Miss Missippi – Take me for a ride
    C’mon Miss Missippi – Your river is restless and so am I
    Take me down to your country shack
    roll me around, honey, crack my back
    C’mon Miss Missippi – C’mon Miss Missippi

    I was run out of town- I’m never going back
    I was run out of town on the Southern Crescent click clack
    Fire on The Track
    Fire On the Track
    Fire on The Track

    C’mon Miss Missippi – Your cotton’s getting high
    C’mon Miss Missippi – We can shake it off the vine
    Rock me on your river bank – rock me til I can’t feel no pain
    C’mon Miss Missippi – C’mon Miss Missippi

    I was run out of town- I’m never going back
    I was run out of town on the Southern Crescent click clack
    Fire on The Track
    Fire On the Track
    Fire on The Track

    Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Rooster 44

    I can hear ya callin’ my name
    I can hear ya callin’ my name
    and it sounds like trouble
    sounds so good to me
    I been so damn lonely, you’ll have me on my knees alright

    What ya wanna do with me now baby
    What ya wanna do with me now baby
    start some trouble

    Well it sounds good to me
    Take me in your kitchen and feed me on my knees alright!

    When you dish it out I just cant take it
    When you dish it out I just cant take it
    Aint had no lovin, and you look so good to me
    Take me in your kitchen
    and wont ya feed me what i need

    I can hear ya callin’ my name
    I can hear ya callin’ my name
    I can hear ya callin’ my name
    I can hear ya callin’ my name

    Malone (STRANGE BIRD SONGS/ASCAP)

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  • Soul Chicken

    Rooster, get the black chair – break it up real good
    Take it out da back yard – we need the firewood
    We gonna make soul chicken – soul chicken make you strong
    It’s greasy, easy pickin’ – you’ll gnaw it off the bone
    Soul Chicken x4

    It make you walk on water – make you cross the desert sands
    Make you walk through fire – sail your ship up on the land
    Ain’t talking bout no gray goose – aint talking kitty cats
    Aint talking mama’s taters – but it taste real good with that
    Soul Chicken x4

    Don’t you get your chicken bent

    Don’t you get your chicken bent
    Don’t you get your chicken bent
    right up the middle x2

    Rooster get the black chair
    Break it up real good
    Aint talkin’ mama’s tater’s
    But it look real good
    Don’t you get your chicken bent

    Ride it up on me
    Don’t you get your chicken bent

    Ride it up on me
    Ride it up, Ride it up, Ride it up on me

    Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Tighten Up the Springs

    Mama say she comin’, well don’t make me wait
    Tighten up the springs on the bed
    Got my motor runnin right down my leg
    Tighten up the springs on da bed
    Tighten up the springs
    Tighten up the springs on the bed

    C’mon baby, why don’t ya bring us a friend
    I tighten up the springs on the bed
    dig your dance heels in the oak board head
    tighten up the springs on da bed
    Tighten up the springs
    Tighten up the springs on the bed

    I’ma gonna shake the garden tonight
    I tighten up the springs on da bed
    Come on darlin wont ya drive drive me all night
    And tighten up the strings on my legs
    Tighten up the springs
    Tighten up the springs on the bed

    Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Traveling and Unraveling

    Spilling down the highway, leave a little drop of me
    In each and every city, where I stop to drop you to your knees
    Moanin’, yea, that’s my name, rolling like a hurricane

    Got no time to roll me up and take a shot, baby

    I wanna be with you, If you want me to,

    I wanna be with you, roll me, roll me

    I’m traveling and unraveling,
    I’m traveling and unraveling
    I’m traveling and unraveling,
    I’m coming undone- don’t you wanna come with me?

    Feeling like a wild cat, what do you think about that
    I wanna scratch on your back, gimme the keys to your temple
    Don’t wanna meet your daddy, just want you to want to have me
    Here’s my phone to call your mama, tell her no pajamas tonight

    I wanna be with you, If you want me to,

    I wanna be with you, roll me, roll me

    I’m traveling and unraveling,
    I’m traveling and unraveling
    I’m traveling and unraveling,
    I’m coming undone- don’t you wanna come with me?

    Spilling down the highway, leave a little drop of me
    In each and every city, where I stop to drop you to your knees
    Until you’re begging me please
    Moanin’, yea, that’s my name, rolling like a hurricane
    Got jus the time to roll one up and roll me out and take a shot, baby
    before we’re hittin the stage

    I wanna be with you, If you want me to,

    I wanna be with you, roll me, roll me

    I’m traveling and unraveling,
    I’m traveling and unraveling
    I’m traveling and unraveling,
    I’m coming undone- don’t you wanna come with me?

    Michelle Malone (STRANGE BIRD SONGS/ASCAP)

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  • Where Is The Love

    Love is like a stray rebellious bird
    call it and you’ll never hear a word
    it’s not the feather flutter sound
    it’s just the wind swirling around
    Love is like a stray rebellious bird

    Turn away and then she will appear
    wait no more and wings will flicker near
    it’s likely love will come to you
    when you’ve given up your due
    she wants only who does not want her

    Where is the love – why dont you show me
    Where is the love – don’t act like you don’t know me

    the song she’ll sing to you will cast a spell
    her beauty, rare, will cause your heart to swell
    just when you think she’s in your palm
    you’ll open it to find she’s gone
    then you’ll cry more than the whippoorwill

    Where is the love – why dont you show me
    Where is the love – don’t act like you don’t know me

    When you need her most she will not come
    selfish and untamed, she’ll abandon
    she’ll turn her wings and fly away
    there is no law she must obey
    she’ll depart as quickly as the sun, as the sun

    Where is the love – why dont you show me
    Where is the love – don’t act like you donÕt know me

    Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Winter Muscadine

    Had me a lover who didn’t treat me right
    That fussin and fightin dragged me down
    While I was making rent, that lying cheat was making time
    So I packed my tote for higher ground
    What once was sweet grew so sour on the vine
    Tastes like a winter muscadine

    I walked on downtown for to find the man
    And help turn my tears into a smile
    we ducked down the alley where he usually stands
    But his wife was a waiting crocodile
    What once was sweet grew so sour on the vine
    Tastes like a winter muscadine

    Let me be, oh mama, let me be
    Let me be, oh mama, let me be
    She’s sharpened up her tongue, she’s loaded up her 45
    She’s pistol packin’, mad as hell, and I’m runnin’ for my life

    So I got me another lover on down the line
    Who don’t like to holler or to scream
    But she got a complicated modern kind of life
    Now her man’s a comin’ after me
    What once was sweet grew so sour on the vine
    Tastes like a winter muscadine

    Let me be, oh daddy, let me be
    Let me be, oh daddy, let me be
    He’s chasing me around the block on his shiny motorbike
    He’s a rebel in the rubble and I’m rollin’ out of site

    Now I’ve seen sorrow grow a bitter fruit
    Taste like a winter muscadine
    I Stomp that grape then I drink a toast to you
    Soak it up like the sunshine
    Suck it up like southern kind
    Taste like a winter Muscadine

    Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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