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The Lonesome Jubilee Album
by  John Mellencamp


John Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee Lyrics



  1. Paper In Fire
  2. Down And Out In Paradise
  3. Check It Out
  4. The Real Life
  5. Cherry Bomb
  6. We Are The People
  7. Empty Hands
  8. Hard Times For An Honest Man
  9. Hotdogs And Hamburgers
  10. Rooty Toot Toot
  11. Blues from the Front Porch

Paper In Fire


She had a dream
+
And boy it was a good one
+
So she chased after her dream
+
With much desire
+
But when she got too close
+
To her expectations
+
Well the dream burned up
+
Like paper in fire
+
[Chorus:]
+
Paper in fire
+
Stinkin' up the ashtrays
+
Paper in fire
+
Smokin' up the alleyways
+
Who's to say the way
+
A man should spend his days
+
Do you let them smolder
+
Like paper in fire
+
He wanted love
+
With no invovlement
+
So he chased the wind
+
That's all his silly life required
+
And the days of vanity
+
Went on forever
+
And he saw his days burn up
+
Like paper in fire
+
[Chorus]
+
There is a good life
+
Right across the green field
+
And each generation
+
Stares at it from afar
+
But we keep no check
+
On our appetites
+
So the green fields turn to brown
+
Like paper in fire
+
[Chorus]
+
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She had a dream
+
And boy it was a good one
+
So she chased after her dream
+
With much desire
+
But when she got too close
+
To her expectations
+
Well the dream burned up
+
Like paper in fire
+
[Chorus:]
+
Paper in fire
+
Stinkin' up the ashtrays
+
Paper in fire
+
Smokin' up the alleyways
+
Who's to say the way
+
A man should spend his days
+
Do you let them smolder
+
Like paper in fire
+
He wanted love
+
With no invovlement
+
So he chased the wind
+
That's all his silly life required
+
And the days of vanity
+
Went on forever
+
And he saw his days burn up
+
Like paper in fire
+
[Chorus]
+
There is a good life
+
Right across the green field
+
And each generation
+
Stares at it from afar
+
But we keep no check
+
On our appetites
+
So the green fields turn to brown
+
Like paper in fire
+
[Chorus]
+
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Writer: JOHN MELLENCAMP
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC




Down And Out In Paradise


Dear Mr. President
+
I live in the suburbs
+
It's a long way from Washington , D.C.
+
Had me a job
+
Workin' for wages
+
Till the company moved out
+
And they forgot about me
+
Can't draw unemployment
+
For some unknown reason
+
My kids are hungry
+
I've got four mouths to feed
+
I go out every day looking for suitable employment
+
Do you think there's something you could do for me
+
Cause I'm
+
[Chorus:]
+
Down and out here in paradise
+
Down and out and I'm on my knees
+
I'm down and out here in paradise
+
Looks like the milk and honey
+
Done run out on me
+
Dear Mr. President
+
I used to be a dancer
+
Got a little bit too old
+
So I became a secretary
+
Married a man
+
In Las Vegas, Nevada
+
And ten years later
+
He ran out on the kids and me
+
Some said I was pretty
+
But those days are over
+
Now I've no place to live
+
And I'm out on the streets
+
Oh, Mr. President
+
Can I tell you a secret
+
I never ever thought that this could happen to me
+
Cause I'm
+
[Chorus]
+
Dear Mr. President
+
I'm just a young kid
+
I'm in the fourth grade
+
At Riley Elementary
+
My mom and dad's been actin' funny
+
I'm not sure what
+
If it's got something to do with me
+
My daddy's always drunk
+
My mom's a babysitter
+
And I don't like the Russians
+
Cause I hear they hate me
+
Dear Mr. President
+
Can I ask you one question
+
When the bombs fall down
+
Will they hurt everyone in my family
+
Yeah, yeah
+
[Chorus]
+
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Dear Mr. President
+
I live in the suburbs
+
It's a long way from Washington , D.C.
+
Had me a job
+
Workin' for wages
+
Till the company moved out
+
And they forgot about me
+
Can't draw unemployment
+
For some unknown reason
+
My kids are hungry
+
I've got four mouths to feed
+
I go out every day looking for suitable employment
+
Do you think there's something you could do for me
+
Cause I'm
+
[Chorus:]
+
Down and out here in paradise
+
Down and out and I'm on my knees
+
I'm down and out here in paradise
+
Looks like the milk and honey
+
Done run out on me
+
Dear Mr. President
+
I used to be a dancer
+
Got a little bit too old
+
So I became a secretary
+
Married a man
+
In Las Vegas, Nevada
+
And ten years later
+
He ran out on the kids and me
+
Some said I was pretty
+
But those days are over
+
Now I've no place to live
+
And I'm out on the streets
+
Oh, Mr. President
+
Can I tell you a secret
+
I never ever thought that this could happen to me
+
Cause I'm
+
[Chorus]
+
Dear Mr. President
+
I'm just a young kid
+
I'm in the fourth grade
+
At Riley Elementary
+
My mom and dad's been actin' funny
+
I'm not sure what
+
If it's got something to do with me
+
My daddy's always drunk
+
My mom's a babysitter
+
And I don't like the Russians
+
Cause I hear they hate me
+
Dear Mr. President
+
Can I ask you one question
+
When the bombs fall down
+
Will they hurt everyone in my family
+
Yeah, yeah
+
[Chorus]
+
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Writer: JOHN MELLENCAMP
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC




Check It Out


A million young poets
+
Screamin' out their words
+
To a world full of people
+
Just livin' to be heard
+
Future generations
+
Ridin' on the highways that we built
+
I hope they have a better understanding
+
Check it out
+
Goin' to work on Monday
+
Check it out
+
Got yourself a family
+
Check it out
+
All utility bills have been paid
+
You can't tell your best buddy that you love him
+
So check it out
+
Where does our time go
+
Check it out
+
Got a brand new house in escrow
+
Check it out
+
Sleepin' with your back to your loved one
+
This is all that we've learned about happiness
+
Check it out
+
Forgot to say hello to my neighbors
+
Check it out
+
Sometimes I question my own behavior
+
Check it out
+
Talkin' about the girls that we've seen on the sly
+
Just to tell our souls we're still the young lions
+
So check it out
+
Gettin' too drunk on Saturdays
+
Check it out
+
Playin' football with the kids on Sundays
+
Check it out
+
Soarin' with the eagles all week long
+
And this is all that we've learned about living
+
This is all that we've learned about living
+
A million young poets
+
Screamin' out their words
+
Maybe someday
+
Those words will be heard
+
By future generations
+
Ridin' on the highways that we built
+
Maybe they'll have a better understanding
+
Check it out
+
Hope they'll have a better understanding
+
Check it out
+
Maybe they'll have a better understanding
+
Check it out
+
Maybe they'll have a better understanding
+
Check it out
+
Hope they have a better understanding
+
Check it out.....
+
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A million young poets
+
Screamin' out their words
+
To a world full of people
+
Just livin' to be heard
+
Future generations
+
Ridin' on the highways that we built
+
I hope they have a better understanding
+
Check it out
+
Goin' to work on Monday
+
Check it out
+
Got yourself a family
+
Check it out
+
All utility bills have been paid
+
You can't tell your best buddy that you love him
+
So check it out
+
Where does our time go
+
Check it out
+
Got a brand new house in escrow
+
Check it out
+
Sleepin' with your back to your loved one
+
This is all that we've learned about happiness
+
Check it out
+
Forgot to say hello to my neighbors
+
Check it out
+
Sometimes I question my own behavior
+
Check it out
+
Talkin' about the girls that we've seen on the sly
+
Just to tell our souls we're still the young lions
+
So check it out
+
Gettin' too drunk on Saturdays
+
Check it out
+
Playin' football with the kids on Sundays
+
Check it out
+
Soarin' with the eagles all week long
+
And this is all that we've learned about living
+
This is all that we've learned about living
+
A million young poets
+
Screamin' out their words
+
Maybe someday
+
Those words will be heard
+
By future generations
+
Ridin' on the highways that we built
+
Maybe they'll have a better understanding
+
Check it out
+
Hope they'll have a better understanding
+
Check it out
+
Maybe they'll have a better understanding
+
Check it out
+
Maybe they'll have a better understanding
+
Check it out
+
Hope they have a better understanding
+
Check it out.....
+
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Writer: RODNEY LEMAY, ANDRE MAURICE BARNES
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group




The Real Life


Suzanne divorced her husband
+
She got the keys and the car and the home
+
But her friends were really his friens
+
No one stops by to see her much any more
+
So one night, she goes back down to
+
The old haunts
+
That once upon a time were her own
+
She didn´t know nobody out there no
+
More
+
And the whole experience just made her
+
Feel so old
+
She says...
+
I want to live the real life
+
I want to life my life close to the bone
+
Just because I´m middle-aged that
+
Don´t mean
+
I want to sit around my house and watch TV
+
I want the real life
+
I want to live the real life
+
Jackson Jackson was a good kid
+
He had four years of college
+
And a bachelor´s degree
+
Started workin, when he was 21
+
Got fed up and quit
+
When he was forty three
+
He said, "My whole life
+
I´ve done, what I supposed to do
+
Now I´d like to maybe do something
+
For myself
+
And just as soon, I figure out what
+
That is
+
You can bet your live
+
I´m gonna give it hell"
+
He says...
+
I want to live the real life
+
I want to life my life close to the bone
+
Just because I´m middle-aged that
+
Don´t mean
+
I want to sit around my house and watch TV
+
I want the real life
+
I want to live the real life
+
I guess, it don´t matter, how old you are
+
Or how old one lives to be
+
I guess, it boils down to what we did
+
With our lives
+
And how we deal with our own
+
Destinies
+
But something happens
+
When you reach a certain age
+
Particularly to to those ones, that are
+
Young at heart
+
It´s a lonely proposition when you realize
+
That there´s less days in front of the horse
+
Than riding in the back of this cart
+
I say...
+
I want to live the real life
+
I want to life my life close to the bone
+
Just because I´m middle-aged that
+
Don´t mean, I want to sit around my house and watch TV
+
I want the real life
+
I want to live the real life.
+
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English

Suzanne divorced her husband
+
She got the keys and the car and the home
+
But her friends were really his friens
+
No one stops by to see her much any more
+
So one night, she goes back down to
+
The old haunts
+
That once upon a time were her own
+
She didn´t know nobody out there no
+
More
+
And the whole experience just made her
+
Feel so old
+
She says...
+
I want to live the real life
+
I want to life my life close to the bone
+
Just because I´m middle-aged that
+
Don´t mean
+
I want to sit around my house and watch TV
+
I want the real life
+
I want to live the real life
+
Jackson Jackson was a good kid
+
He had four years of college
+
And a bachelor´s degree
+
Started workin, when he was 21
+
Got fed up and quit
+
When he was forty three
+
He said, "My whole life
+
I´ve done, what I supposed to do
+
Now I´d like to maybe do something
+
For myself
+
And just as soon, I figure out what
+
That is
+
You can bet your live
+
I´m gonna give it hell"
+
He says...
+
I want to live the real life
+
I want to life my life close to the bone
+
Just because I´m middle-aged that
+
Don´t mean
+
I want to sit around my house and watch TV
+
I want the real life
+
I want to live the real life
+
I guess, it don´t matter, how old you are
+
Or how old one lives to be
+
I guess, it boils down to what we did
+
With our lives
+
And how we deal with our own
+
Destinies
+
But something happens
+
When you reach a certain age
+
Particularly to to those ones, that are
+
Young at heart
+
It´s a lonely proposition when you realize
+
That there´s less days in front of the horse
+
Than riding in the back of this cart
+
I say...
+
I want to live the real life
+
I want to life my life close to the bone
+
Just because I´m middle-aged that
+
Don´t mean, I want to sit around my house and watch TV
+
I want the real life
+
I want to live the real life.
+
[ Correct these Lyrics ]
Writer: JOHN MELLENCAMP
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC




Cherry Bomb


Well I lived on the outskirts of town
+
In an eight room farmhouse, baby
+
When my brothers and friends were around
+
There was always somethin' doin'
+
Had me a couple of real nice girlfriends
+
Stopped by to see me every once in a while
+
When I think back about those days
+
All I can do is sit and smile
+
[Chorus:]
+
That's when a sport was a sport
+
And groovin' was groovin'
+
And dancin' meant everything
+
We were young and we were improvin'
+
Laughin', laughin' with our friends
+
Holdin' hands meant somethin', baby
+
Outside the club"Cherry Bomb"
+
Our hearts were really thumpin'
+
Say yeah yeah yeah
+
Say yeah yeah yeah
+
The winter days they last forever
+
But the weekends went by so quick
+
Went ridin' around this little country town
+
We were goin' nuts, girl, out in the sticks
+
One night, me with my big mouth
+
A couple guys had to put me in my place
+
When I see those guys these days
+
We just laugh and say do you remember when
+
[Chorus]
+
Say yeah yeah yeah
+
Say yeah yeah yeah
+
Seventeen has turned thirty-five
+
I'm surprised that we're still livin'
+
If we've done any wrong
+
I hope that we're forgiven
+
Got a few kids of my own
+
And some days I still don't know what to do
+
I hope that they're not laughing too loud
+
When they hear me talkin'
+
Like this to you
+
[Chorus]
+
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Well I lived on the outskirts of town
+
In an eight room farmhouse, baby
+
When my brothers and friends were around
+
There was always somethin' doin'
+
Had me a couple of real nice girlfriends
+
Stopped by to see me every once in a while
+
When I think back about those days
+
All I can do is sit and smile
+
[Chorus:]
+
That's when a sport was a sport
+
And groovin' was groovin'
+
And dancin' meant everything
+
We were young and we were improvin'
+
Laughin', laughin' with our friends
+
Holdin' hands meant somethin', baby
+
Outside the club"Cherry Bomb"
+
Our hearts were really thumpin'
+
Say yeah yeah yeah
+
Say yeah yeah yeah
+
The winter days they last forever
+
But the weekends went by so quick
+
Went ridin' around this little country town
+
We were goin' nuts, girl, out in the sticks
+
One night, me with my big mouth
+
A couple guys had to put me in my place
+
When I see those guys these days
+
We just laugh and say do you remember when
+
[Chorus]
+
Say yeah yeah yeah
+
Say yeah yeah yeah
+
Seventeen has turned thirty-five
+
I'm surprised that we're still livin'
+
If we've done any wrong
+
I hope that we're forgiven
+
Got a few kids of my own
+
And some days I still don't know what to do
+
I hope that they're not laughing too loud
+
When they hear me talkin'
+
Like this to you
+
[Chorus]
+
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Writer: JOHN MELLENCAMP
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC




We Are The People


If you're feelin' shut down
+
May my thoughts be with you
+
If you're a black man bein' beat down and shoved all around
+
May my thoughts be with you
+
If your world's gettin' a little to tough
+
You know our thoughts are with you
+
Hey, I know that it's crazy out there
+
And my thoughts are with you
+
[Chorus:]
+
We are the people
+
And we live forever
+
We are the people
+
And our future's written on the wind
+
On the wind
+
If you are one of the homeless
+
May our thoughts be with you
+
If you are scared and alone
+
You know our thoughts are with you
+
If you are one of the fortunate ones
+
We all know it's lonely up there
+
We understand that nobody's got it made
+
So our thoughts are with you
+
[Chorus]
+
You see yourself as a leader
+
May my thoughts be with you
+
If you try to divide and conquer
+
We'll rise up against you
+
We know only the strong will survive
+
But the meek will inherit
+
So if you've got a coat of arms, oh friend
+
I suggest we wear it
+
[Chorus]
+
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If you're feelin' shut down
+
May my thoughts be with you
+
If you're a black man bein' beat down and shoved all around
+
May my thoughts be with you
+
If your world's gettin' a little to tough
+
You know our thoughts are with you
+
Hey, I know that it's crazy out there
+
And my thoughts are with you
+
[Chorus:]
+
We are the people
+
And we live forever
+
We are the people
+
And our future's written on the wind
+
On the wind
+
If you are one of the homeless
+
May our thoughts be with you
+
If you are scared and alone
+
You know our thoughts are with you
+
If you are one of the fortunate ones
+
We all know it's lonely up there
+
We understand that nobody's got it made
+
So our thoughts are with you
+
[Chorus]
+
You see yourself as a leader
+
May my thoughts be with you
+
If you try to divide and conquer
+
We'll rise up against you
+
We know only the strong will survive
+
But the meek will inherit
+
So if you've got a coat of arms, oh friend
+
I suggest we wear it
+
[Chorus]
+
[ Correct these Lyrics ]
Writer: JOHN MELLENCAMP
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC




Empty Hands


Written by: John Mellencamp and George Green
+
In the shadows of the smokestacks
+
Through the black snow that lay on the land
+
Walked home one winter morning
+
With my life's savings in my hand
+
Maryanne, she's fixin' up some breakfast
+
Got the lights on, on the Christmas tree
+
Sittin' there lookin' up at an angel
+
With something dyin' inside of me
+
Grew up with great expectations
+
Heard the promise and I knew the plan
+
They say people get what they deserve
+
But Lord, sometimes it's much worse than that
+
Maryanne she's takin' in some laundry
+
I got a part-time job at a drive-in stand
+
Oh Lord, what did I do
+
To deserve these empty hands
+
Across the cities, across this land
+
Through the valleys, and across the sand
+
To many people standin' in line
+
Too many people with nothin' planned
+
There's too many people with empty hands
+
Now Maryanne's been cryin'
+
Lord knows I love her the best I can
+
When my pride is bruised and broken
+
She slips her hand into my empty hands
+
Without hope, without love, you've got nothing but pain
+
Just makes a man not give a damn
+
That's no way for us to live
+
We've got to fill these empty hands
+
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Written by: John Mellencamp and George Green
+
In the shadows of the smokestacks
+
Through the black snow that lay on the land
+
Walked home one winter morning
+
With my life's savings in my hand
+
Maryanne, she's fixin' up some breakfast
+
Got the lights on, on the Christmas tree
+
Sittin' there lookin' up at an angel
+
With something dyin' inside of me
+
Grew up with great expectations
+
Heard the promise and I knew the plan
+
They say people get what they deserve
+
But Lord, sometimes it's much worse than that
+
Maryanne she's takin' in some laundry
+
I got a part-time job at a drive-in stand
+
Oh Lord, what did I do
+
To deserve these empty hands
+
Across the cities, across this land
+
Through the valleys, and across the sand
+
To many people standin' in line
+
Too many people with nothin' planned
+
There's too many people with empty hands
+
Now Maryanne's been cryin'
+
Lord knows I love her the best I can
+
When my pride is bruised and broken
+
She slips her hand into my empty hands
+
Without hope, without love, you've got nothing but pain
+
Just makes a man not give a damn
+
That's no way for us to live
+
We've got to fill these empty hands
+
[ Correct these Lyrics ]
Writer: GEORGE MICHAEL GREEN, JOHN MELLENCAMP
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC




Hard Times For An Honest Man


One man
+
Does his work
+
He's not satisfied
+
Not at all
+
Feels like
+
That he is being used
+
His self respect starts to fall
+
His frustration
+
Runnin' very very high
+
He takes it out
+
On the one he loves
+
Because it's safe
+
And who they gonna tell
+
And he hates the cold-bloodedness
+
That runs inside
+
[Chorus:]
+
Oh yes
+
It's hard times
+
For an honest man
+
Very very very hard times
+
Hard times for an honest man
+
Very very very hard times
+
Sister
+
She's got a lot of pride
+
You can see it when she walks into the room
+
But she's young
+
And she's unaware
+
Of what a brutal world can do to you
+
So she loves a man
+
He lies like a dog
+
Tears her little world all apart
+
So the walls go up
+
For the rest of her days
+
And there ain't no man can touch this girl's heart
+
[Chorus]
+
So we walk
+
From the front porch to the back yard
+
Just to laugh and say hello and say good-bye
+
But some days are hard, like a soldier's steel-toed boots
+
And the rent we pay to stay here gets high
+
[Chorus]
+
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One man
+
Does his work
+
He's not satisfied
+
Not at all
+
Feels like
+
That he is being used
+
His self respect starts to fall
+
His frustration
+
Runnin' very very high
+
He takes it out
+
On the one he loves
+
Because it's safe
+
And who they gonna tell
+
And he hates the cold-bloodedness
+
That runs inside
+
[Chorus:]
+
Oh yes
+
It's hard times
+
For an honest man
+
Very very very hard times
+
Hard times for an honest man
+
Very very very hard times
+
Sister
+
She's got a lot of pride
+
You can see it when she walks into the room
+
But she's young
+
And she's unaware
+
Of what a brutal world can do to you
+
So she loves a man
+
He lies like a dog
+
Tears her little world all apart
+
So the walls go up
+
For the rest of her days
+
And there ain't no man can touch this girl's heart
+
[Chorus]
+
So we walk
+
From the front porch to the back yard
+
Just to laugh and say hello and say good-bye
+
But some days are hard, like a soldier's steel-toed boots
+
And the rent we pay to stay here gets high
+
[Chorus]
+
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Writer: JOHN MELLENCAMP
Copyright: Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing




Hotdogs And Hamburgers


Drivin´ down a dry summer´s day
+
Old Route 66 and I was just a kid
+
Met a pretty little Indian girl
+
Along the way
+
Get her into my car
+
And tried to give her a kiss
+
I´ll give you beads and wampum
+
Whatever it takes, girl
+
To make you trade.
+
She jumped into the back seat
+
And she kinda flipped her lid
+
She said, "you´re trying to get somethin´ for nothin'"
+
"Like the pilgrims in the olden days"
+
We rode for a while
+
Till the sun went away
+
And I realized it was a sort of an honor
+
Bein´around this girl
+
I felt embarrassed
+
Of what I tried to do earlier that day
+
She was the saddest girl, I ever knew
+
She told me stories about the Indian nations
+
And how the white man stole their lives away
+
And although she kinda liked me
+
She could never tust me
+
And when the sun comes up
+
We´d go our different ways
+
[Chorus:]
+
Now everybody has got the choice
+
Between hotdogs and hamburgers
+
Every one of us has got to choose
+
Between right and wrong
+
And givin´ up or holdin´ on
+
So I dropped her off
+
At some railroad crossing in Texas
+
An old Indian man was waiting there
+
He smiled and thanked me
+
But he saw right through me
+
I could tell, he didn´t like me
+
For my kind, he didn´t care
+
Because to him, I was the white man
+
The one who sold him something
+
That he already owned
+
And it was like he´d been ridin´ in the
+
Car right there with us
+
And I felt ashamed of my actions
+
And the way the west was really won
+
So I drove down the highway
+
Till I came to Los Angeles
+
To the town of the angels
+
The best, this country can do
+
I got down on my knees
+
And I ask for forgiveness
+
I said, "Lord, forgive us
+
For we know not, what we do"
+
[Chorus:]
+
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English

Drivin´ down a dry summer´s day
+
Old Route 66 and I was just a kid
+
Met a pretty little Indian girl
+
Along the way
+
Get her into my car
+
And tried to give her a kiss
+
I´ll give you beads and wampum
+
Whatever it takes, girl
+
To make you trade.
+
She jumped into the back seat
+
And she kinda flipped her lid
+
She said, "you´re trying to get somethin´ for nothin'"
+
"Like the pilgrims in the olden days"
+
We rode for a while
+
Till the sun went away
+
And I realized it was a sort of an honor
+
Bein´around this girl
+
I felt embarrassed
+
Of what I tried to do earlier that day
+
She was the saddest girl, I ever knew
+
She told me stories about the Indian nations
+
And how the white man stole their lives away
+
And although she kinda liked me
+
She could never tust me
+
And when the sun comes up
+
We´d go our different ways
+
[Chorus:]
+
Now everybody has got the choice
+
Between hotdogs and hamburgers
+
Every one of us has got to choose
+
Between right and wrong
+
And givin´ up or holdin´ on
+
So I dropped her off
+
At some railroad crossing in Texas
+
An old Indian man was waiting there
+
He smiled and thanked me
+
But he saw right through me
+
I could tell, he didn´t like me
+
For my kind, he didn´t care
+
Because to him, I was the white man
+
The one who sold him something
+
That he already owned
+
And it was like he´d been ridin´ in the
+
Car right there with us
+
And I felt ashamed of my actions
+
And the way the west was really won
+
So I drove down the highway
+
Till I came to Los Angeles
+
To the town of the angels
+
The best, this country can do
+
I got down on my knees
+
And I ask for forgiveness
+
I said, "Lord, forgive us
+
For we know not, what we do"
+
[Chorus:]
+
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Writer: JOHN MELLENCAMP
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC




Rooty Toot Toot


Got my hands on a little bit of dough
+
So I went to the grocery store
+
And got some steaks to go
+
Went by and picked up my gal, Teddi Jo
+
We had ourselves a picnic
+
Beside a dirt road
+
[Chorus:]
+
Rooty toot toot
+
Rooty toot toot
+
We had it made in the shade
+
Like a ball through the hoop
+
Spinnin' and tumblin' inside this hoola hoop
+
Livin' and learnin'
+
Rooty toot toot
+
We laid out a blanket
+
And started a fire
+
Had the radio playin'
+
From inside the car
+
I took off my shirt and kicked off my shoes
+
She read the paper
+
And told me the news
+
She said, there's a lot of people out there
+
Who are at the end of their rope
+
Sometimes baby
+
You've got to lay low
+
[Chorus]
+
We stayed there all day
+
We both got us some real good suntans
+
I thought that was ok
+
Sometimes life can be so grand
+
We were gettin' ready
+
To shake out of that place
+
When the Illinois state trooper
+
Got in my face
+
He said, You're on private property
+
But once he cooled down he was ok
+
Sometimes you're golden, man
+
That's all I got to say
+
[Chorus]
+
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Got my hands on a little bit of dough
+
So I went to the grocery store
+
And got some steaks to go
+
Went by and picked up my gal, Teddi Jo
+
We had ourselves a picnic
+
Beside a dirt road
+
[Chorus:]
+
Rooty toot toot
+
Rooty toot toot
+
We had it made in the shade
+
Like a ball through the hoop
+
Spinnin' and tumblin' inside this hoola hoop
+
Livin' and learnin'
+
Rooty toot toot
+
We laid out a blanket
+
And started a fire
+
Had the radio playin'
+
From inside the car
+
I took off my shirt and kicked off my shoes
+
She read the paper
+
And told me the news
+
She said, there's a lot of people out there
+
Who are at the end of their rope
+
Sometimes baby
+
You've got to lay low
+
[Chorus]
+
We stayed there all day
+
We both got us some real good suntans
+
I thought that was ok
+
Sometimes life can be so grand
+
We were gettin' ready
+
To shake out of that place
+
When the Illinois state trooper
+
Got in my face
+
He said, You're on private property
+
But once he cooled down he was ok
+
Sometimes you're golden, man
+
That's all I got to say
+
[Chorus]
+
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Writer: JOHN MELLENCAMP
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC




Blues from the Front Porch


Well it's another hot day
+
In Lena, Mississippi
+
Evan played the harmonica
+
And the old people sang
+
Some are laughin', some are cryin'
+
Most are still relyin' on the old, damn tar
+
Yeah, in Shannon County
+
No one's short of work today
+
There ain't no use to
+
Since they took our dignity and ran away
+
Well who we are
+
And what we achieve
+
When it comes to grips with that
+
And the madness someone believe
+
In Shannon County
+
Here in the Midwest
+
Farm prices are at a slow burn
+
Well I know it ain't my fault
+
So I reckon it must be my turn
+
Aimless days
+
Empty future
+
Bruised optimism
+
You know we ain't no quitters here in the county
+
Just keep a talkin'
+
Do you know what I mean?
+
You can keep all your big deals
+
Don't take away our reason to believe
+
We've worked on your field
+
And ran from father's reach
+
Sent soldiers to your war
+
And peace signs keep our dream
+
We'll just keep on talkin', yeah
+
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Well it's another hot day
+
In Lena, Mississippi
+
Evan played the harmonica
+
And the old people sang
+
Some are laughin', some are cryin'
+
Most are still relyin' on the old, damn tar
+
Yeah, in Shannon County
+
No one's short of work today
+
There ain't no use to
+
Since they took our dignity and ran away
+
Well who we are
+
And what we achieve
+
When it comes to grips with that
+
And the madness someone believe
+
In Shannon County
+
Here in the Midwest
+
Farm prices are at a slow burn
+
Well I know it ain't my fault
+
So I reckon it must be my turn
+
Aimless days
+
Empty future
+
Bruised optimism
+
You know we ain't no quitters here in the county
+
Just keep a talkin'
+
Do you know what I mean?
+
You can keep all your big deals
+
Don't take away our reason to believe
+
We've worked on your field
+
And ran from father's reach
+
Sent soldiers to your war
+
And peace signs keep our dream
+
We'll just keep on talkin', yeah
+
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The Lonesome Jubilee

The Lonesome Jubilee is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter John Cougar Mellencamp (credited as simply Mellencamp on pressings). The album was released by Mercury Records on August 24, 1987 (see 1987 in music). Four singles were released from the album, the first two in 1987 and the last two in 1988.

The album was one of Mellencamp's most successful worldwide, charting in ten countries. The album was most successful in Canada where it topped RPM magazine's Top Albums chart and became the artist's highest certified album by Music Canada (formerly the Canadian Recording Industry Association) becoming 6× platinum. In The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics poll for the year's best albums, The Lonesome Jubilee finished at No. 7.

"We were on the road for a long time after Scarecrow, so we were together a lot as a band," Mellencamp said in a 1987 Creem Magazine feature. "For the first time ever, we talked about the record before we started. We had a very distinct vision of what should be happening here. At one point, The Lonesome Jubilee was supposed to be a double album, but at least 10 of the songs I'd written just didn't stick together with the idea and the sound we had in mind.

So I just put those songs on a shelf, and cut it back down to a single record. Now, in the past, it was always 'Let's make it up as we go along' - and we did make some of The Lonesome Jubilee up as we went along. But we had a very clear idea of what we wanted it to sound like, even before it was written, right through to the day it was mastered."
Performed by: John Mellencamp
Genre(s): Rock, heartland rock, garage rock
Producer(s): John Mellencamp, Don Gehman
Length: 39:42
Released: August 24th, 1987
Year: 1987
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