ATF: Four-Track Favs

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Creedence Clearwater Revival]

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Well

Take me back down where cool water flow y’all

Let me remember things I love

Stoppin' at the log where catfish bite

Walkin' along the river road at night

Barefoot girls

Dancin' in the moonlight

I can hear the bull frog callin' me

Wonder if my rope's still hangin' to the tree

Love to kick my feet way down the shallow water

Shoefly

Dragonfly

Get back to mother

Pick up a flat rock

Skip it across

Green River

Well

Up at Cody's camp I spent my days

With flat car riders

And cross-tie walkers

Old Cody Junior took me over

Said

You're gonna find the world is smoulderin’

And if you get lost

Come on home to

Green River

Well

Come on home

Link: [The Association]

Windy

The Association

Who's peeking out from under a stairway

Calling a name that's lighter than air

Who's bending down to give me a rainbow

Everyone knows it's

Windy

Who's tripping down the streets of the city

Smiling at everybody she sees

Who's reaching out to capture a moment

Everyone knows it's

Windy

And Windy has

Stormy eyes

That flash at the

Sound of lies

And Windy has

Wings to fly

Above the clouds

Above the clouds

Above the clouds

Above the clouds

And Windy has

Stormy eyes

That flash at the

Sound of lies

And Windy has

Wings to fly

Above the clouds

Above the clouds

Above the clouds

Above the clouds

Who's tripping down the streets of the city

Smiling at everybody she sees

Who's reaching out to capture a moment

Everyone knows it's

Windy

Who's tripping down the streets of the city

Smiling at everybody she sees

Who's reaching out to capture a moment

Everyone knows it's

Windy

Who's tripping down the streets of the city

Smiling at everybody she sees

Who's reaching out to capture a moment

Everyone knows it's

Windy

Who's tripping down the streets of the city

Smiling at everybody she sees

Who's reaching out to capture a moment

Everyone knows it's

Windy

Who's tripping down the streets of the city

Smiling at everybody she sees

Who's reaching out to capture a moment…

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

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ATF: NoCal Dreams and Nightmares

This weekly series will include as many of my all-time favorite tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way that your musical tastes can be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions that you might dare to make.  I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Creedence Clearwater Revival]

Lodi

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Just about a year ago

I set out on the road

Seekin' my fame and fortune

Lookin' for a pot of gold

Things got bad

And things got worse

I guess you’ll know the tune

Oh Lord

Stuck in Lodi again

Rode in on the Greyhound

I'll be walkin' out if I go

I was just passin' through

Must be seven months or more

Ran out of time and money

Looks like they took my friends

Oh Lord

I'm stuck in Lodi again

The man from the magazine

Said I was on my way

Somewhere I lost connections

Ran out of songs to play

I came into town

A one-night stand

Looks like my plans fell through

Oh Lord

Stuck in Lodi again

If I only had a dollar

For every song I've sung

Every time I've had to play

While people sat there drunk

You know I'd catch the next train

Back to where I live

Oh Lord

Stuck in Lodi again

Oh Lord

I'm stuck in Lodi again

Link: [Johnny Cash]

Folsom Prison Blues

Johnny Cash

I hear the train a-comin'

It's rollin’ round the bend

And I ain't seen the sunshine since

I don't know when

I'm stuck in Folsom Prison

And time keeps draggin' on

But that train keeps a-rollin'

On down to San Antone

When I was just a baby

My mama told me son

Always be a good boy

Don't ever play with guns

But I shot a man in Reno

Just to watch him die

When I hear that whistle blowin'

I hang my head and cry

I bet there's rich folks eatin’

In a fancy dinin’ car

They're probably drinkin' coffee

And smokin’ big cigars

Well I know I had it comin’

I know I can't be free

But those people keep a-movin'

And that's what tortures me

Well if they freed me from this prison

If that railroad train was mine

I bet I'd move it on

A little farther down the line

Far from Folsom Prison

That's where I want to stay

And I'd let that lonesome whistle

Blow my blues away

Lyrics From: [elyrics.net]

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ATF: Like Night and Day

This weekly series will include as many of my all-time favorite tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way that your musical tastes can be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions that you might dare to make.  I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Creedence Clearwater Revival]

Bad Moon Rising

Creedence Clearwater Revival

I see

The bad moon a-risin'

I see

Trouble on the way

I see

Earthquakes and lightnin'

I see

Bad times today

Don't go around tonight

Well it's bound to take your life

There's a bad moon

On the rise

I hear

Hurricanes a-blowin'

I know

The end is comin' soon

I fear

Rivers overflowin'

I hear

The voice of rage and ruin

Don't go around tonight

Well it's bound to take your life

There's a bad moon

On the rise

All-right

Hope you

Got your things together

Hope you

Are quite prepared to die

Looks like

We're in for nasty weather

One eye

Is taken for an eye

Well

Don't go around tonight

Well it's bound to take your life

There's a bad moon

On the rise

Don't go around tonight

Well it's bound to take your life

There's a bad moon

On the rise

Link: [The Beatles]

Here Comes The Sun

The Beatles

Here comes the sun

Here comes the sun

And I say

It's all right

Little darlin’

It's been a long cold lonely winter

Little darlin’

It feels like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun

Here comes the sun

And I say

It's all right

Little darlin’

The smiles returnin’ to the faces

Little darlin’

It seems like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun

Here comes the sun

And I say

It's all right

Sun

Sun

Sun

Here it comes

Sun

Sun

Sun

Here it comes

Sun

Sun

Sun

Here it comes

Sun

Sun

Sun

Here it comes

Sun

Sun

Sun

Here it comes

Little darlin’

I feel that ice is slowly meltin’

Little darlin’

It seems like years since it's been clear

Here comes the sun

Here comes the sun

And I say

It's all right

Here comes the sun

Here comes the sun

And I say

It's all right

It's all right

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CCR vs. Ike & Tina Turner

 Link: [Creedence Clearwater Revival]

Link: [On YouTube]

Proud Mary

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Left a good job in the city

Workin’ for the man every night and day

And I never lost one minute of sleepin’

Worryin’ ‘bout the way things might have been

Big wheel keep on turnin’

Proud Mary keep on burnin’

Rollin’

Rollin’

Rollin’ on the river

Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis

Pumped a lot of pain down in New Orleans

But I never saw the good side of the city

‘Til I hitched a ride on a river boat queen

Big wheel keep on turnin’

Proud Mary keep on burnin’

Rollin’

Rollin’

Rollin’ on the river

Rollin’

Rollin’

Rollin’ on the river

If you come down to the river

Bet you gonna find some people who live

You don’t have to worry ‘cause you have no money

People on the river are happy to give

Big wheel keep on turnin’

Proud Mary keep on burnin’

Rollin’

Rollin’

Rollin’ on the river

Rollin’

Rollin’

Rollin’ on the river

Rollin’

Rollin’

Rollin’ on the river

Link: [Ike & Tina Turner]

Link: [On YouTube]

Proud Mary

Ike & Tina Turner

Left a good job down in the city

Workin’ for the man every night and day

But I never lost one minute of sleepin’

Worried ‘bout the way things might might have been

Big wheel keep on turnin’ Lord

Proud Mary keep on burnin’

And we’re rollin’

Rollin’

Rollin’ on the river

Say we’re rollin’

Rollin’

Rollin’

Rollin’ on the river

I left a good job in the city

Workin’ for the man every night and day

But I never lost one minute of sleepin’

Worried ‘bout the way things might have been

Big wheel keep on turnin’

Proud Mary keep on burnin’

And we’re rollin’

Rollin’

Rollin’

Rollin’ down

Rollin’ on the river

Rollin’ on the river

Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis

Pumped a lot of pain down in New Orleans

But I never saw the good side of the city

‘Til I hitched a ride on the river boat queen

You know that big wheel keep on turnin’

And the Proud Mary keep on burnin’

Say we’re rollin’

Rollin’

Rollin’ yeah

Rollin’ down

Rollin’ on the river

Rollin’ on the river

I say we’re rollin’

Rollin’

Rollin’

Rollin’ down

Rollin’ on the river

Rollin’ on the river

Now I left a good job in the city

Workin’ for the man every night and day

But I never lost one minute of sleepin’

Worried ‘bout the way things might have been

Big wheel keep on turnin’

Turnin’

Proud Mary keep on burnin’

Burnin’

Rollin’

Rollin’

Rollin’ on the river

I say we’re rollin’

Rollin’

Rollin’ on the river

Now I cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis

And I pumped a lot of pain down in New Orleans

But I never saw the good side of the city

‘Til I hitched a ride on the river boat queen

Big wheel keep on turnin’

Turnin’

Proud Mary keep on burnin’

Burnin’

Rollin’

Rollin’

Rollin’ on the river

Rollin’

Rollin’

Rollin’ on the river

Hey

Well all-right

Yeah

Yeah

Yeah

Now if you come down to the river

Bet you gonna find some people who live

You don’t have to worry if you don’t have no money

People on the river are happy to give

Big wheel keep on turnin’

Turnin’

Proud Mary keep on burnin’

Burnin’

Rollin’

Rollin’

Rollin’ on the river

You better believe that we’re

Rollin’

Rollin’

Rollin’ on the river

All-right

Rollin’

Rollin’

Rollin’ on the river

Rollin’ on the river

Lyrics From: [OldieLyrics]

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TWO FOR TUESDAY

Link: [Creedence Clearwater Revival]

Not every song that will be featured here will be what is generally considered as being “Christian” in the eyes of this world. For some will be anguished cries from the pit of despair, and others will be quite obviously ferverent rants of rebellion. Nonetheless, be assured that they will all be of our Heavenly Father (in one way or another) and I hope that you have been given ears to hear the message.

Link: [On YouTube]

Have You Ever Seen The Rain

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Someone told me long ago

There’s a calm before the storm

I know

It’s been comin’ for some time

When it’s over so they say

It’ll rain a sunny day

I know

Shinin’ down like water

I wanna know

Have you ever seen the rain

I wanna know

Have you ever seen the rain

Comin’ down

On a sunny day

Yesterday and days before

Sun is cold and rain is hard

I know

Been that way for all my time

‘Til forever on it goes

Through the circle fast and slow

I know

It can’t stop I wonder

I wanna know

Have you ever seen the rain

I wanna know

Have you ever seen the rain

Comin’ down

On a sunny day

Yeah

I wanna know

Have you ever seen the rain

I wanna know

Have you ever seen the rain

Comin’ down

On a sunny day

Link: [On YouTube]

Fortunate Son

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Some folks are born

Made to wave the flag

Ooh

They’re red white and blue

And when the band plays

Hail to the Chief

Ooh

They’re pointin’ the canon at you Lord

It ain’t me

It ain’t me

I ain’t no senator’s son son

It ain’t me

It ain’t me

I ain’t no fortunate one no

Some folks are born

Silver spoon in hand

Lord

Don’t they help themselves oh

But when the taxman

Comes to the door

Lord

The house looks like a rummage sale yeah

It ain’t me

It ain’t me

I ain’t no millionaire’s son no no

It ain’t me

It ain’t me

I ain’t no fortunate one no

Yeah

Some folks inherit

Star-spangled eyes

Ooh

They send you down to war Lord

And when you ask them

How much should we give

Ooh

They only answer

More

More

More

Yo

It ain’t me

It ain’t me

I ain’t no military son son no

It ain’t me

It ain’t me

I ain’t no fortunate one one

It ain’t me

It ain’t me

I ain’t no fortunate one no no no

It ain’t me

It ain’t me

I ain’t no fortunate son no no no

It ain’t me

Lyrics From: [OldieLyrics]

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