Black Irish

+ You Made Me Feel For You

(Clint Black / Michael McDonald)

Almost a lifetime of going nowhere

Through all of the motions it took to be me

No one to love me but I didn't care

Had walls all around me and I thought I was free

Chorus:

'Til, you made me see you're some kind of light

Can't help but see such a beautiful sight

You opened my eyes and before I could blink

You had all of my vies and I'm startin' to think

That you made me feel all there is to it

You made me feel like you knew I could do it

Put a heart where there's nothing' you made me real

And that's just how you made me feel

I must have been lonely though I couldn't have known

Love was the only thing I was not looking for

Wandering aimless in a world of my own

Pleasure and painless 'til you opened the door

Chorus:

'Til, you made me see you're some kind of light

Can't help but see such a beautiful sight

You opened my eyes and before I could blink

You had all of my vies and I'm startin' to think

That you made me feel that's all there is to it

You made me feel like you knew I could do it

Put a heart where there's nothing' and you made me real

And that's just how you made me feel

+ I Ain't Gonna Stand for It

(Stevie Wonder)

Don't wanna believe what they're tellin' me

Somebody's been pickin' in my cherry tree

Don't wanna mistrust nobody by mistake

But somebody's been diggin' 'round in my cave

I ain't gonna stand for it, baby

I ain't gonna stand for it

I ain't gonna stand for it, baby

I ain't gonna stand for it

Now (now)

Don't wanna believe what somebody said

Somebody said somebody shoes was under my bed

Don't wanna cause nobody no bodily harm

But somebody's been rubbin' on my good luck charm

I ain't gonna stand for it, baby

I ain't gonna stand for it

I ain't gonna stand for it, baby

I ain't gonna stand for it

Now (now)

Woah, my my my my my my

Well and I ain't gonna stand for it, baby

I ain't gonna stand for it

I ain't gonna stand for it, baby

I ain't gonna stand for it

I ain't gonna stand for it, baby

I ain't gonna stand for it

I ain't gonna stand for it, baby

I ain't gonna stand for it

Now (now)

+ Banshee Moan

(Richard Belmont Jr Powell / Shannon McNally)

Well you're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't

Trouble if you will, goes double if you won't

So you watch what you say, you watch what you do

You keep thinking someday they're gonna see real you

Sixty cents on the dollar, more than makes you want to holler

Attack your smarts until your numb, is how they make you feel dumb

You want to beat em to the punch, you want to trust every hunch

Because in the mirror there's a

girl just trying to make it in the world

WOMAN WEEP LIKE THE WILD WINDS WAIL

FOR YOUR MAGDALENE AND YOUR JEZEBEL

WOMAN WEEP FOR YOUR SISTERS GONE

LET THEIR NAMES LIVE ON WITH A BANSHEE MOAN

Then one day you turn a corner, find your doubt goes back burner

All dismissal implies, is where your sanity lies

So you've come through fire, you've set your sights higher

You've found a merciful moon, but not a moment too soon

WOMAN WEEP LIKE THE WILD WINDS WAIL

FOR YOUR MAGDALENE AND YOUR JEZEBEL

WOMAN WEEP FOR YOUR SISTERS GONE

LET THEIR NAMES LIVE ON WITH A BANSHEE MOAN

+ I Went to the Well

(Garry Burnside/ Shannon McNally)

I went to the well

I went to the well

I went to the well, oh my baby

And then I fell

I drank the water first

I drank the water first

I drank water first, oh my baby

If I quench my thirst

Well 'round come the devil

Well 'round come the devil

Well 'round come the devil, oh my darlin',

Yeah he caught me in the middle

Break it down, break it down

Break it down, break it down

Break it down, break it down, yes my baby

Let me tell you what I found

If a man can tell his heart

If a man can tell his heart

If a man can tell his heart what to do,

Then a woman could too

But a heart's got a mind of his own

Yeah a heart's got a mind of his own

Well a heart's got a mind, mind of his own

Baby, truth be known

There's a lot it my mind

Yeah there's a lot in my mind

There's a lot in mind

I don't care much for dyin'

So I went to the well

I went to the well

I went to the well, oh my baby

And then I fell

Yes I went to the well

I went to the well

I went to the well, oh my baby

And in I fell

+ Roll Away the Stone

(Cary Hudson / Shannon McNally)

Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll

Ain't gonna save my soul

So my baby daddy says

Wants me to settle down

A little Mississippi town, yeah

Stop all this runnin' around

But I can't seem to stop reaching for the top

Til' somebody calls the cops

Yes, it's a backbeat

Really brings a heat

Was the devil in a drivin' seat

I said oh, come on

Let's get down to the bone

Oh, come on

Tell me can you feel it?

Roll away the stone

Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll

Ain't gonna save my soul

So my baby daddy says

And he don't mean it

Doesn't see it

How rock 'n' roll can raise the dead

Yes it ain't no lie

It'll kill ya 'til you die

Oh yeah

Yes it'll shave you dry

So shake it 'til it bleeds, man

Can give you what you need

Then move over so your soul can feel

I said oh, come on

Let's get down to the bone

Oh, come on

Tell me can you feel it?

Roll away the stone

It ain't no lie

It'll kill ya 'til you die

Oh yeah

Yes it'll shave you dry

So shake it 'til it bleeds, man

Can give you what you need

Then move over so your need can feel

I said oh, come on

Let's get down to the bone

Oh, come on

Tell me can you feel it?

Roll away the stone

+ Black Haired Boy

(Susanna Wallis Clark / Guy Clark)

He's a black haired boy of some confusion

And he makes no excuse for the things that he's usin'

He's gentle and wild and a child of the mountain

His words are for singing and his days are for countin'

And he's looking for a home he's scared to find

Some lady beside him and he's drunk on white wine

Some lady beside him and he's drunk on white wine

He's a devil in the morning and a savior at night

Tomorrow's a case of whatever's right

Lonesome and high are the things that he feels

And the cards that he plays are the ones that he deals

He's one of the chances you're entitled to take

He's one of the hearts that it's too late to break

I've seen him be sad and never know why

Seen him fall down to laugh, seen him stand up to cry

+ Low Rider

(J.J. Cale)

He's my low rider

He's my low rider

Some think he's bad, but he's better than no ride

He wears a 45 on his hip

He takes no bother, he takes no lip

Don't put no hand on my rider today

He's my low rider

Yeah, he's my low rider

Some say he's bad, but he's better than no ride

In the morning' I get my kicks

When he shows me all of his tricks

I love him, my ya know he's fine

Yes he's my low rider

He's my low rider

Some say he's bad, but he's better than no ride

+ Isn't That Love?

(Beth Nielsen Chapman / Rodney Crowell)

And so it goes when you travel from town to town

Passing time with a guitar it hurts to lay it down

I've been lost and saved and lost again

Those lonely white lines I've come to think of them as friends

Things rarely go the way I hope

I spend too much time ducking jabs up against the ropes

But all I really want in the end

Is to be counted among the good guys when I'm laid to rest

And you're the loveliest I've ever seen

A sweet blueberry gonna whip your cream

Yes you're the loveliest I've ever seen

My delta rogue you are lovely

What say you and me get lost for a while

Chase down that sunset at the end of that longest mile

Cause I was born to run you were born to my man

We'll take cover baby come on give me your hand

I just got off that mountain you know where I wanna go

Straight down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico

And when we hit the beach we'll rent a little house

We'll lay in bed listen to the waves

We'll live on water wine and weed

I ain't gonna let you out of my sight for weeks

And you're the loveliest I've ever seen

A sweet blueberry gonna whip your cream

Yes you're the loveliest I've ever seen

My delta rogue you are lovely

Yes you're the lovliest that I ever did see

Really love your peaches gonna shake your tree

Yes you're the loveliest that I ever did know

Sweet like sugar and pure like snow

+ The Stuff You Gotta Watch

( Mckinley Morganfield / Muddy Waters)

Ya know the girl you love don't treat you right sometimes

(You should be mine, you should be mine)

Ya know the girl you love don't treat you right sometimes

(You should be mine, you should be mine)

There's some stuff you gotta watch cause your girl loves to lie

Ya know the girl you love just stays out all night long

(You should be mine, you should be mine)

Yeah, the girl you love just stays out all night long

(You should be mine, you should be mine)

That stuff you gotta watch because your girl's treating you wrong

You need your hat (you need your hat)

You need your coat (you need your coat)

Yeah, cause you done found out that she don't want it anymore

That's the stuff you gotta watch

That's the stuff you gotta watch

That's the stuff you gotta watch if you don't wanna lose your mind

Ya know the girl's no good but you don't make no change

(You should be mine, you should be mine)

Yeah, the girl's no good but you don't make no change

(You should be mine, you should be mine)

That's the stuff you gotta watch cause you justify it all the same

Well, she'll spend your dough (she'll spend your dough)

She'll drink your gin (she'll drink your gin)

Yeah, she rolled around the corner, baby there she goes again

That's the stuff you gotta watch

That's the stuff you gotta watch

That's the stuff you gotta watch if you don't wanna lose your mind

That's the stuff you gotta watch if you don't wanna lose your mind

That's the stuff you gotta watch if you don't wanna lose your mind

+ Prayer in Open D

(Emmy Lou Harris)

There's a valley of sorrow in my soul

Where every night I hear the thunder roll

Like the sound of a distant gun

Over all the damage I have done

And the shadows fillin' up this land

Are the ones I built with my own hands

There is no comfort from the cold

Of this valley of sorrow in my soul

There's a river of darkness in my blood

Through every vein, I feel the flood

I can find no bridge to cross

No way to bring back what was lost

Into the night, it's always sweet

Down where all my grievances I keep

But it won't wash away the years

A one single heart and bitter tear

In the rock of ages I have known

Is a weariness down in my bones

Used to ride it like a rolling stone

Now I just carry the load

There's a highway rising from my dreams

Deep in the heart I know it gleams

For I have seen it stretching wide

Clear on across to the other side

Beyond the river and the flood

And the valley where for so long I stood

With the rock of ages in my bones

Someday, I know it will lead me home

+ It Makes No Difference

(R Robertson)

It makes no difference where I turn

Can't get over you and the flame still burns

It makes no difference night or day

Shadow never seems to fade away

And the sun don't shine anymore

And the rains fall down at my door

Now there's no love as true as the love that dies untold

And the clouds never hung so low before

It makes no difference how far I go

Like a sky love will always show

It makes no difference who I'd be

That's just a face in the crowd on a dead end street

And the sun don't shine anymore

And the rains fall down at my door

These old love letters I just can't keep

Cause I have to, gambler says read 'em and weep

And the dark don't rescue me no more

Without your love, I am nothing at all

Like an empty hole, it's a lonely bow

Since you've been gone, it's a losing battle

Stayin', bleeding cattle, they rattle the ones

And the sun don't shine anymore

And the rains fall down at my door

Well, I love you so much, it's all I can do

Just to keep myself from telling you

That I never felt so alone

No, I never felt so alone

No, I never felt so alone

+ Let's Go Home

Get right church and let's go home

Get right church and let's go home

Get right church, get right church

Get right church and let's go home

I'm goin' home on the mornin' train

I'm goin' home on the morning' train

I'm goin' home, I'm goin' home

I'm goin' home on the mornin' train

Midnight train may be too late

Evenin' train may be too late

Evenin' train, evenin' train

Evenin' train may be too late

It may be too late, it may be too late

It may be too late, too late, too late

It may be too late, it may be too late

It may be too late, too late, too late

Get right church and let's go home

Get right church and let's go home

Get right church, get right church

Get right church and let's go home