Folk Medicine
Don't You Cry For Me
Don't you cry for me
Don't you cry for me
I am only trying to be free
Don't you cry for me
Surely you must know
That in time all things go
And for every high there will be a low
Surely you must know
I've been locked away in my prison cell
With the secrets that I've kept so well
I was blind but now I see
So wash away your tears and
Don't you cry for me
Don't you cry for me
Don't you cry for me
I am only trying to be free
Don't you cry for me
I am only trying to be free
Don't you cry for me
War
My friend if you will listen I ask of you no more
Please beware the Devil's child we've come to know as war
I beg of you be careful of the things that you believe
For War has always found a way to lie and to deceive
War will lead the headless, deluded and spellbound
And convince unwary men to strike their brothers down
The eyes of War are quick to see the color of your skin
The anger and the weakness that we hold within
Your blood, your breed, your kindred, the land that you are from
The eyes of War will see your race and your native tongue
The eyes of War see borders dividing human kind
And to the world that we share the eyes of War are blind
War will hide its demon face behind Religion's veil
And breed in you contempt for those who worship and who hail
Some strange and foreign holy sage that you have never known
For War has surely given you one god to call your own
My friend if you will listen I ask of you no more
Please beware the Devil's child we've come to know as war
For War disguise itself with many righteous names
Democracy and Freedom are pawns within War's game
For War will surely tell you that for them the bullets fly
And for our Lady Liberty some must surely die
Well, one thing I can tell you, one thing that's for sure
Never are we truly free until we're free of War
One thing I can tell you, one thing that's for sure
Never are we truly free until we're free of War
Folk Medicine
(Instrumental)
North Country Girl
I'm thinking of a girl a long, long way from me
She's got chestnut eyes as deep as the sea
And her hair is as black as a raven's wing
She laughs and she cries, she dances and sings
Her light is as bright as the warm sunshine
Don't you know that someday I'm going to make her mine
There ain't nothing any sweeter in this world
Than the love of a North Country girl
I think of her often in times like these
And I wonder if she's ever thinking of me
When I'm lost in the darkness of my lonely night
When I"m feeling blind she gives me sight
Her light is as bright as the warm sunshine
Don't you know that someday I'm going to make her mine
There ain't nothing any sweeter in this world
Than the love of a North Country girl
I'm thinking of a girl a long, long way from me
She's got chestnut eyes as deep as the sea
And her hair is as black as a raven's wing
She laughs and she cries, she dances and sings
Her light is as bright as the warm sunshine
Don't you know that someday I'm going to make her mine
There ain't nothing any sweeter in this world
Than the love of a North Country girl
I Am The Snake
I am the rich controlling the poor
I'm a politician starting up a war
I've got my share but I want more
I am the demon, I am the snake
I am the man for whom you toil
I am the rising price of oil
I am pollution in your soil
I am the demon, I am the snake
I am the one putting you to sleep
I am religion, I am T.V.
I tell you what to think, I tell you what to dream
I am the demon, I am the snake
I'm always asking you to pay
I'm the latest craze up on display
I am master of the third world slave
I am the demon, I am the snake
I prey upon your lonesome fear
I am the blindness you hold dear
I am the truth that you don't hear
I am the demon, I am the snake
I am the rich controlling the poor
I'm a politician starting up a war
I've got my share but I want more
I am the demon, I am the snake
Lonesome Traveler
Take my hand and walk with me
My friend, my love, my enemy
For I am a lonesome traveler
Bound in chains you see
I am a weary prisoner
searching for release
Forgive me Lord, for I have sinned
And given my heart away to the wind
For I am a lonesome traveler
Bound in chains you see
I am a weary prisoner
Won't you set me free?
Take my hand and walk with me
My friend, my love, my enemy
Cactus Baby
I've got a Cactus Baby living in my head
I've got a Cactus Baby sleeping in my bed
Cactus baby, Cactus Baby
You know the Cactus Baby is the sharpest one of all
I've got a Cactus Baby sitting in my chair
I've got a Cactus Baby at the top of the stairs
Cactus Baby, Cactus Baby
Don't you catch the Cactus Baby when it falls
You know the Cactus Baby doesn't really drink a lot
And the Cactus Baby likes the sun more than it ought to
But when it comes to jabbin', to pokin' and to stabin'
You know the Cactus Baby's going to give you all its got
I've got a Cactus Baby singing in my brain
I've got a Cactus Baby driving me insane
Cactus Baby, Cactus Baby
You know the Cactus Baby is a prickly one to call
The Mask In The Meadow
(Instrumental)
Jesus Was
Jesus was a kind hearted man
The type that most people don't understand
He was sent down from Heaven above
To teach God's children to forgive and to love
He said "Do unto others as you'd have done unto yourself
And peace will be with you in sickness and in health"
And some people listened and tried to understand
Jesus was a kind hearted man
Jesus was a kind hearted man
The type that most people don't understand
He spread his love and grace across the land
Healing the wounded with a touch of his hand
But his heart was to good, his heart was too pure
And the people were afraid, the people were unsure
They nailed him to a cross because they couldn't understand
Jesus was a kind hearted man
They lay him in a tomb in the mouth of a cave
And they rolled a giant stone to seal off his grave
But when three days had passed, so it's said
Jesus rose up from the dead
And the people were aghast, the people were in awe
They began to believe it was the good Lord they saw
And many people started trying hard to understand
Jesus was a kind hearted man
The Word spread like wildfire and Jesus found fame
And the people built churches to worship his name
But in time they lost site of their creed
And the churches were run with avarice and greed
They grew hungry for power and they gathered it with zeal
They took money from the poor who were begging to be healed
And they hoarded all the riches because they couldn't understand
Jesus was a kind hearted man
Now, many of the people who tried to understand
Took the teachings of Jesus away to foreign lands
But they'd forgotten about peace, forgiveness and love
They began to hate and they began to judge
And they carried a cross with His image in their hands
As they raped and they pillaged and they took all the land
And they killed in his name because they couldn't understand
Jesus was a kind hearted man
Jesus was a kind hearted man
The type that most people don't understand
Country Dance
(Instrumental)
Farewell To Eden
Darling, let me take you home to the land where I was born
The winters there are icy cold but the summers they are warm
I'll show you 'round the countryside where the trees grow tall and green
The rivers run as clear as day and the air is crisp and clean
Oh, darling
Can't you see?
Oh, darling
Come with me
Maybe we could find ourselves a spot to call our own
I'll get a job and we'll settle down and build ourselves a home
We could have some children, in the forest they could play
And swim down in the river that runs as clear as day
Oh, darling
Can't you see?
Oh, darling
Come with me
There's an orchard on a hillside that we could get to know
And a meadow in the valley where the wildflowers grow
Darling, something's wrong, this place just doesn't look right to me
There's a coal mine on the hillside where the orchard used to be
There's an oilfield in the valley, the meadow looks beaten and worn
The trees have all been cut you see this land is stripped and torn
Darling, pack your bags this ain't no place for us to stay
This ain't no place to build a home or for children to play
No child of mine is going to run her feet on this polluted soil
The air is thick with smoke and smog and the river's black with oil
Oh, darling
Can't you see?
Oh, darling
Come with me
Oh, darling
Can't you see?
Oh, darling
Come with me
Don't Let The Rain Paint You Blue
Don't let the rain paint you blue
It's only passing through
Locked in the cupboard
Tying knots in yourself
You got stuck up on the shelf
But don't let the rain paint you blue
It's only passing through
Open up your eyes
Look for the sunshine
To lift up the weight of your mind
Don't let the rain paint you blue
It's only passing through
Locked in the cupboard
Tying knots in yourself
You got stuck up on the shelf
But don't let the rain paint you blue
It's only passing through
Don't let the rain paint you blue
It's only passing
It's only passing
It's only passing through
A Place Where You Belong
I've been traveling so long and so far
I've come undone, I've fallen apart
I am a million pieces scattered on the floor
I really cannot say who I am anymore
I was one, I was pure
Now I'm broken, now I'm so unsure
They say the richest souls look within to find their wealth
And the lost can only find themselves
I say a prayer for those who dare to walk off of the road
I sing this song for those who never find their way back home
And in the dusk, at the end of the day
Who may proclaim never to have gone astray?
It's in unfamiliar places that loneliness resides
And in unfamiliar faces that a lonely soul confides
If you should ever try to leave the shallows on your own
You may find before you learn to swim you're sinking like a stone
And if you search through the night for the dawn
You may find all you're looking for is a place where you belong
