ATF: Jet-Setting

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: [Peter, Paul & Mary]

Leaving on a Jet Plane

Peter, Paul & Mary

All my bags are packed

I'm ready to go

I'm standing here

Outside your door

I hate to wake you up

To say goodbye

But the dawn is breakin'

It's early morn

The taxi's waitin’

He's blowin' his horn

Already I'm so lonesome

I could cry

So kiss me

And smile for me

Tell me that you'll wait for me

Hold me like you'll never let me go

I'm a-leavin'

On a jet plane

I don't know when I'll be back again

Oh babe

I hate to go

There's so many times

I've let you down

So many times

I've played around

I tell you now

They don't mean a thing

Every place I go

I think of you

Every song I sing

I sing for you

When I come back

I'll wear your wedding ring

So kiss me

And smile for me

Tell me that you'll wait for me

Hold me like you'll never let me go

I'm a-leavin'

On a jet plane

I don't know when I'll be back again

Oh babe

I hate to go

Now the time has come

To leave you

One more time

Let me kiss you

Then close your eyes

And I'll be on my way

Dream about

The days to come

When I won't have to

Leave alone

About the times

I won't have to say

Kiss me

And smile for me

Tell me that you'll wait for me

Hold me like you'll never let me go

I'm a-leavin'

On a jet plane

I don't know when I'll be back again

Leavin’

On a jet plane

I don’t know when I’ll be back again

Leavin’

On a jet plane

I don’t know when I’ll be back again

Oh babe

I hate to go

Link: [Steve Miller (Band)]

Jet Airliner

Steve Miller

Leavin' home out on the road

I've been down before

Ridin' along on this big ol' jet plane

I've been thinkin' about my home

But my love light seems so far away

And I feel like it's all been done

Somebody's tryin' to make me stay

You know I've got to be movin' on

Oh oh oh

Big ol' jet airliner

Don't carry me too far away

Oh oh oh

Big ol' jet airliner

‘Cause it's here that I've got to stay

Goodbye to all my friends at home

Goodbye to people I've trusted

I've got to go out and make my way

I might get rich

You know I might get busted

But my heart keeps calling me backwards

As I get on the 707

Ridin' high I got tears in my eyes

You know you got to go through hell

Before you get to heaven

Big ol' jet airliner

Don't carry me too far away

Oh oh oh

Big ol' jet airliner

‘Cause it's here that I've got to stay

Touchin' down in New England town

Feel the heat comin' down

I've got to keep on keepin' on

You know the big wheel keeps on spinnin' around

And I'm goin' with some hesitation

You know that I can surely see

That I don't want to get caught up in any of that

Funky kicks goin' down in the city

Big ol' jet airliner

Don't carry me too far away

Oh oh oh

Big ol' jet airliner

‘Cause it's here that I've got to stay

Oh oh oh

Big ol' jet airliner

Don't carry me too far away

Oh oh oh

Big ol' jet airliner

‘Cause it's here that I've got to stay

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Big ol' jet airliner

Don't carry me too far away

Whoa oh oh

Big ol' jet airliner

‘Cause it's here that I've got to stay

Oh oh oh

Big ol' jet airliner

Carry me to my home

Oh oh oh

Big ol' jet airliner

‘Cause it's here that I've got to stay

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Big ol’ jet airliner…

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ATF: Financial Planning

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: [DireStraits]

Money For Nothing

Dire Straits

I want my

I want my

I want my

M

T

V

Now look at them yo-yos

That’s the way you do it

You play the guitar

On the MTV

That ain’t workin’

That’s the way you do it

Money for nothin’

And chicks for free

Now that ain’t workin’

That’s the way you do it

Lemme tell ya

Them guys ain’t dumb

Maybe get a blister

On your little finger

Maybe get a blister

On your thumb

We gotta install

Microwave ovens

Custom kitchen

Deliveries

We gotta move these

Refrigerators

We gotta move these

Color TVs

We gotta install

Microwave ovens

Custom kitchen

Deliveries

We gotta move these

Refrigerators

We gotta move these

Color TVs

Look at that

Look at that

I shoulda learned

To play the guitar

I shoulda learned

To play them drums

Look at that mama

She got it

Stickin’ in the camera

Man

We could have some fun

And he’s up there

What’s that

Hawaiian noises

Bangin’ on the bongos

Like a chimpanzee

Oh that ain’t workin’

Thats the way you do it

Get your money for nothin’

Get your chicks for free

We gotta install

Microwave ovens

Custom kitchen

Deliveries

We gotta move these

Refrigerators

We gotta move these

Color TVs

Listen hear

Now

That ain’t workin’

That’s the way you do it

You play the guitar

On the MTV

That ain’t workin’

That’s the way you do it

Get your money for nothin’

And your chicks for free

Money for nothin’

And chicks for free

Get your money for nothin’

And chicks for free

Look at that

Look at that

Get your money for nothin’

I want my

I want my

And chicks for free

I want my MTV

Get your money for nothin’

I want my

I want my

And chicks for free

I want my MTV

Link: [Steve Miller (Band)]

Take the Money and Run

Steve Miller (Band)

This here's a story about

Billy Joe and Bobbie Sue

Two young lovers with

Nothin' better to do

Than sit around the house

Get high

And watch the tube

And here is what happened

When they decided to cut loose

They headed down to

Ooh

Old El Paso

That's where they ran into a

Great big hassle

Billy Joe shot a man

While robbin’ his castle

Bobbie Sue

Took the money and run

Go on

Take the money and run

Go on

Take the money and run

Go on

Take the money and run

Go on

Take the money and run

Billy Mack

Is a detective down in Texas

You know he knows just exactly

What the fact is

He ain't gonna let

Those two escape justice

He makes his livin' off of

The people's taxes

Bobbie Sue

Whoa whoa

She slipped away

Billy Joe caught up to her

The very next day

They got the money

Hey

You know they got away

They headed down south

And they're still runnin’ today

Singin'

Go on

Take the money and run

Go on

Take the money and run

Go on

Take the money and run

Oooh Lord

Go on

Take the money and run

Yeah yeah yeah

Go on

Take the money and run

Yeah

Yeah

Yeah

Go on

Take the money and run

Oooh Lord

Go on

Take the money and run

Yeah

Yeah

Go on

Take the money and run

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