Artist: SOUNDTRACK Album: Easy Rider {1969}

You know, I've smoked a lot of grass, oh Lord, I've popped a lot of pills
But I never touched nothin' that my spirit could kill
You know, I've seen a lot of people walkin' round with tombstones in their eyes
But the pusher don't care, oh, if you live or if you die

God damn the pusher
God damn, hey, I say, the pusher
I said, God damn, God damn the pusher man

You know, the dealer, the dealer is a man with the love grass in his hand
Oh, but the pusher is a monster, good God, he's not a natural man
The dealer for a nickel, Lord, will sell you lots of sweet dreams
Oh, but the pusher ruin your body, Lord, he'll leave your, he'll leave your mind to scream

God damn, oh, the pusher
God damn, God damn the pusher
I said, God damn, God, God damn the pusher man

Well, now, if I were the president of this land
You know, I'd declare total war on the pusher man
I'd cut him if he stands and I'd shoot him if he'd run
Then I'd kill him with my Bible and my razor and my gun

God damn, oh, the pusher
God damn the pusher
I said, God damn, God damn the pusher man

Get your motor runnin', head out on the highway
Lookin' for adventure and whatever comes our way
Yeah, Darlin', go make it happen, take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once and explode into space

I like smoke and lightnin', heavy metal thunder 
Racin' with the wind and the feelin' that I'm under
Yeah, I gotta go make it happen, take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once and explode into space

Like a true nature's child
We were born, born to be wild
We can climb so high 
I never wanna die
Born to be wild
Born to be wild

Get your motor runnin', head out on the highway
Lookin' for adventure and whatever comes our way
Yeah, Darlin', go make it happen, take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once and explode into space

Like a true nature's child
We were born, born to be wild
We can climb so high 
I never wanna die
Born to be wild
Born to be wild

I pulled into Nazareth, I was feelin' bout half past dead
I just need some place where I can lay my head
"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand, "No," was all he said

Take a load off Fannie, take a load for free
Take a load off Fannie and you put the load right on me

I picked up my bag, I went lookin' for a place to hide
When I saw Carmen and the Devil walkin' side by side
I said, "Hey, Carmen, come on, let's go downtown."
She said, "I gotta go, but my friend can stick around."

Take a load off Fannie, take a load for free
Take a load off Fannie and you put the load right on me

Go down Miss Moses, there's nothin' you can say
It's just old Luke and Luke's waitin' on the Judgement Day.
"Well, Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee?"
He said, "Do me a favor, son, won't ya stay and keep Anna Lee company?"

Take a load off Fannie, take a load for free
Take a load off Fannie and you put the load right on me

Crazy Chester followed me and he caught me in the fog
He said, "I'll fix your rack if you'll take Jack, my dog."
I said, "Wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man."
He said, "That's okay, just feed him when you can."

Take a load off Fannie, take a load for free
Take a load off Fannie and you put the load right on me

Catch a Cannonball, now, to take me down the line
My bag is sinkin' low and I do believe it's time
To get back to Miss Fannie, you know she's the only one
Who sent me here with her regards for everyone

Take a load off Fannie, take a load for free
Take a load off Fannie and you put the load right on me

Oh, I'd rather go and journey where the diamond crest is flowing
And run across the valley beneath the sacred mountain
And wander through the forest where the trees have leaves of prisms
And break the light in colors that no one knows the names of

And when it's time I'll go and wait beside a legendary fountain
Till I see your form reflected in it's clear and jewelled waters
And if you think I'm ready you may lead me to the chasm
Where the rivers of our vision flow into one another

I will want to die beneath the white cascading waters
She may beg, she may plead, she may argue with her logic
And then she'll know the things I learned that really have no value
In the end she will surely know I wasn't born to follow

If you wanna be a bird

If you wanna be a bird why don't you try a little flying
No denying it gets you high
Why be shackled to your feet when you've got wings you haven't used yet
Don't wait for heaven, get out and fly

Just glide there through the clear air
Making figure eights through the pearly gates
Where the soul and the universe meet

If you wanna be a bird it won't take much to get you up there
But when you come down land on your feet

Just glide there through the clear air
Making figure eights through the pearly gates
Where the soul and the universe meet

If you wanna be a bird it won't take much to get you up there
When you come down land on your feet

Don't bogart that joint, my friend
Pass it over to me
Don't bogart that joint, my friend
Pass it over to me

Roll another one
Just like the other one
You've been hanging on to it
And I sure would like a hit

Don't bogart that joint, my friend
Pass it over to me
Don't bogart that joint, my friend
Pass it over to me

Roll another one
Just like the other one
That one's just bout burnt to the end
So, come on and be a real friend

Don't bogart that joint, my friend
Pass it over to me
Don't bogart that joint, my friend
Pass it over to me

Everybody sing along this time
Don't bogart that joint, my friend
Pass it over to me
Don't bogart that joint, my friend
Pass it over to me

Yeah, sing the song
If the sun refuse to shine
I don't mind, I don't mind
If the mountains fell in the sea
Let it be, it ain't me, alright
Cos I got my own world to look through
And I, and I ain't gonna copy you, yes

Now, if a six turned out to be nine
I don't mind, I don't mind, alright
If all the hippies cut off all their hair
I don't care, I don't care, dig
Cos I got my own world to live through
And, and I ain't gonna copy you

White collared conservative flashing down the street
Pointing their plastic finger at me
They're hoping soon my kind will drop and die
But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high, high, oh
Wave on, wave on

Fall mountains, just don't fall on me
Go ahead on Mr. Businessman, you can't dress like me, yeah

Everybody know what I'm talkin' about
Got my own life to live
I'm the one who has to die when it's time for me to die
So, let me live my life the way I want to
There - sing on brother, play on drummer

Kyrie eleison, Kyrie eleison, Kyrie eleison
Kyrie eleison, Kyrie eleison, Kyrie eleison
Christe, Christe
Christe eleison, eleison, eleison, eleison
Christe, Christe


I never really thought of myself as a freak, ya know.  But I love to freak.

I've got an idea.  Let's go outside.


When the saints - when the saints
Go marching in - go marching in
When the saints go marching in
You know, I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in
Now, when they march - when they march

Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows, even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in tryin'

Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
Plays wasted words, proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dyin'

Temptation page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover that you'd just be
One more person cryin'

So, don't fear when you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighin'

A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit
To satisfy, insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not forget
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to

Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to

For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destiny
Speak jealously of them that are free
Do what they do to be nothin' more
Than something they invest in

The river flows, it flows to the sea
Wherever that river goes, that's where I want to be
Flow river, flow - let your waters wash down
Take me from this road to some other town

All he wanted was to be free
And that's the way it turned out to be
Flow river, flow - let your waters wash down
Take me from this road to some other town

Go river, go - past the shaded tree
Flow river, flow - flow to the sea
Flow river, flow - flow to the sea