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Edgar Lacey, Songwriter and Vocals
Dave Sebree, Guitars
Roscoe Beck, Bass
Steve Samuel, Drums and Percussion
Phil Redmon, B-3, Rhodes, Wurlitzer and Piano
John Mills, Tenor Sax and Clarinet
Rich Harney, Piano
Eamon McLaughlin, Violin
1. Star Crazy
(Edgar, Roscoe, Steve and Rich)
2. Rock n' Roll Saturday Night
(Edgar, Dave, Roscoe, Steve, Phil)
3. Findin' the Fantasy
(Edgar, Dave, Roscoe, Steve, Phil, John)
4. Cute Lil' Darlin'
(Edgar, Dave, Roscoe, Steve, Phil, John)
5. Blues Matinee
(Edgar, Dave, Roscoe, Steve, Phil)
6. Angelita
(Edgar, Dave, Roscoe, Steve, Phil)
7. Head on Tight
(Edgar, Dave, Roscoe, Steve, Phil, John)
8. Blues for San Antone
(Edgar, Dave, Roscoe, Steve, Phil, Eamon)
9. Life's Dreams
(Edgar, Dave, Roscoe, Steve, Phil, John)
10. Twistin' thru the Delta
(Edgar, Dave, Roscoe, Steve, Phil)
11. Two-Piece On
(Edgar, Dave, Roscoe, Steve, Phil, John)
12. Icy Roads
(Edgar, Dave, Roscoe, Steve, Phil)
13. Cries on my Shoulder
(Edgar, Dave, Roscoe, Steve, Phil, John)
14. Song on the Air
(Edgar, Dave, Roscoe, Steve, Phil, John)
15. Chain Lightnin'
(Edgar, Dave, Roscoe, Steve, Phil, John)
All songs written and copyrighted by Edgar
Lacey.
STAR CRAZY
© 09/87 Edgar Lacey
I go crazy thinkin' about
you
Even crazier wonderin' who "you" is
And when I find out you know she tells me
Something what goes about like this…
I'm your shining star
Don't you know I'm your one last flash in the pan
You'll always think of me
As the one you'll want to see again
And
all this lonesome torment I've suffered
And all this misery and pain
Well, it's sometimes more welcome to witness
Than the blissful blackness of eternity
Now,
I'm your shining star
Don't you know I'm your one last flash in the pan
You'll always think of me
As the one you'll want to see again
Ain't
no chance left now to make amends
It was good once, baby, but you know it's all gone
But you're a dream and sometimes a mystery
That I'll always love…always love to keep my mind on
I'll always love to keep my mind on you
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ROCK n'
ROLL SATURDAY NIGHT
© 3/22/90 Edgar Lacey There's
a fading star on the horizon
It gets dark in a perfect world
When the sun goes down and the tears fall
From the face of a pretty girl
The
fate of the undecided is now
In the hands of big money and crime
When the night comes in and the deals are done
We hope to make it out in time
It's easy going nowhere
fast
Hard to make the good times last -- like
Easy money and Friday late moves
And Rock 'n Roll Saturday nights
Somebody somewhere is smilin'
That's the old time Texas rule
The ladies of the night go on believin'
Money's comin' if you'll just be cool
They
understand this could be hell on earth
And is it all they have left to change
Fall in love with trouble just to leave a fool behind
And to keep from going insane
It's easy going nowhere
fast
Hard to make the good times last -- like
Easy money and Friday late moves
And Rock 'n Roll Saturday nights
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FINDIN' THE
FANTASY © 1987
Edgar Lacey
Can you imagine what I'm
comin' for tonight
Beyond the black curtain, baby, the future's shinin' bright
Two survivors livin' with their mistakes
Gonna find that road to fortune no matter what it takes
Findin' the fantasy makes
me do what I do
Find myself all tore up, head over heels in love with you
Oh, I'm in love with you
Ooooo, baby, I'm in love with you
I
feel it now, the snow fallin' down on my head
I know that in the morning both of us could be dead
Just in case the sun without me comes up and shines
Remember you were there, a noble friend of mine
Findin' the fantasy makes
me do what I do
Find myself all tore up, head over heels in love with you
Oh, I'm in love with you
Ooooo, baby, I'm in love with you
Findin' the fantasy makes
me do what I do
Find myself all tore up, now, head over heels in love with you
Oh, I'm in love with you
Ooooo, baby, I'm in love with you
Don't
matter now if the sun don't ever shine
I know I can count on you to be a friend of mine
Two survivors livin' with their mistakes
Gonna find that road to fortune no matter what it takes
Findin' the fantasy makes
me do what I do
Find myself all tore up, now, head over heels in love with you
Oh, I'm in love with you
Ooooo, baby, I'm in love with you
Ooooo, I'm in love with you
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CUTE LIL' DARLIN'
© July 1986 Edgar Lacey Cute
lil' darlin' with your lullabye eyes
You keep me smilin' while the baby cries
Givin' me the courage to share with you the moment
That in the wink of an eye becomes a hundred years
And the fight becomes a dream
Sometimes things don't always turn out like they should seem
We plan things only to live for the moment
It's the dreams we live that keep us alive, keep us alive
Cute lil' darlin' with your lullabye eyes
You keep me smilin' while the baby cries
Givin' me the courage to share with you the moment
That in the wink of an eye becomes a hundred years
And the fight becomes a dream
Sometimes things don't always turn out like they should seem
We plan things only to live for the moment
It's the dreams we live that keep us alive, keep us alive
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BLUES MATINEE
© 1982 Edgar Lacey Alone
at night sometimes the baby cries
For no apparent reason at all
And sometimes she just sits there and contemplates
cause' there ain't no place left to go
Well, she pours another
drink and reads my letter
It's a blues matinee that's written with a change of heart
I
see now why the girl gets that way
I think it's a phase we all go through
A chance to reassess the old heart aches
And taste the tears that flow anew
Well, she pours another
drink, and reads my letter
It's a blues matinee that leaves her with a change of heart
I
guess now all the really matters
Is that baby gets what she deserves
And in the end she gets kind of gentle
And tells me she's crazy without any words
Well, she pours another
drink, and reads my letter
It's a blues matinee that leaves her with a change of heart
Play that good jazz, Charlie, get up off the ground
This bar won't ever close again
Cool daddy is at the keyboard loadin' up his pipe
Waitin' for the jam to begin
Well, he pours another
drink, and he reads my letter
It's a blues matinee that leaves him with a change of heart
Play that good jazz, Charlie; Play that good jazz, Charles
Play that real good jazz, boy, lay it down, lay it down, lay it down.
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ANGELITA © September
1982 Edgar Lacey
I'm still in love with a girl down in
Mexico,
She was so good to me I nearly lost my control,
She didn't make a scene at the party when I said I was leavin', no,
She just kissed me, gave a squeeze and showed me the door
Show me the door, babe.
She
kisses me just like an angel
She calls me her daddy and says never let me go,
Please don't let me go
I've seen the likes of love hangin out on Bourbon Street
I hitched a ride on a Mississippi queen
But nothin' beats that girl I know down in Mexico
I don't know her name but she's in my dreams
She's in my dreams
She
kisses me just like an angel
She calls me her daddy and says never let me go,
Please don't let me go
She
kisses me just like an angel
She calls me her daddy and says never let me go,
Please don't let me go
I'm
still in love with a girl down in Mexico,
Guess I'll have to treat her once again
She didn't take much money
She sure enough didn't take much time
She said won't you call me honey, here's a dime
Here's a dime
Here's a dime, baby.
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HEAD ON TIGHT
© 1986 Edgar Lacey
You're a victim of your own mistakes
You find out love is more than what it takes
You wind up cryin' over something so fine
You drank too much and bought her diamonds
And now she's a friend of mine
Please understand I'm a man with my head on tight,
oh, head on tight
Oh, child, you can have all this land, if you'll do me right,
oh, do me right,
oh do me right,
oh yeah
We
were friends, it seems like yesterday
Man, that was a long time ago
But sometimes I'm cryin', losing my mind
Lookin' for you and havin' no place to go
Please understand I'm a man with my head on tight, oh, head on tight
Oh, child, you can have all this land, if you'll do me right,
oh, do me right, oh
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BLUES FOR SAN
ANTONE © 1982 Edgar Lacey
He takes the cop out 8
to 5, he says he can't play the blues no more
The hungry life in Hollywood threw him back down on the floor
He says the stars no longer come out at night
No matter what the papers say
What's all this fuss about rock and roll stars anyway
I'm
going to settle down with a longhaired girl from San Antone
She's got some money on her and a place we'll call home,
we'll call home
Now
he's gone, I guess I never will see the boy again
And every time I hear them blues, you know the shape I'm in
Now, I'm workin' the 8 to 5 and I play guitar all night
Friends of mine just the other day said everything will be alright
If
I'd settle down with a longhaired girl from San Antone
She's got some money on her and place we'll call home, we'll call home,
I'm going to settle down with a longhaired girl from San Antone
One whose got some money on her and a place we'll call home,
we'll call home,
I'm
going to settle down with a longhaired girl from San Antone
One whose got some money on her and a place we'll call home,
we'll call home.
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LIFE'S DREAMS
© September 1989 Edgar
Lacey
We'll make the most of
it this time around
Love takes off and sometimes never hits the ground
You can call me sweetheart if I can call you babe
Who cares if they don't think this time we've got it made
We can take the best
chances this time
Promise you won't hurt me; I won't make you lose your mind
When you call me honey, I love to call you dear
It's nice to know when times get hard I've got you right here
We'll shake the
ballroom rafters down tonight
It's getting' late in life so let's get it right
You make me smile so happy when I'm in your sway
Won't you share life's dreams with me today
Roses, life keeps comin'
up roses
It's so very plain to see
If the moon and the stars
Should beg the sun to stop shinin'
Your love still warms my curiosity
We'll make
reservations for just one more show
Take the tiger by the tail and never let him go
I can hold on to you, babe, can you hold on to me?
All those long lost heartaches are through
Love is sharin' all life's dreams with you
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TWISTIN' THRU
THE DELTA (c) 1984 Edgar Lacey
Twistin' thru the Delta
in the moonlight
People in New Orleans cause the wind to move at night
They're takin' what they want and leavin' nothing behind
If you haven't been to Mardi Gras, then you must be blind
Our love will live after all is said and done
Never in my sweet, short life
Did I ever think you'd be the one, you'd be the one
A
brilliant flash of flight on the horizon
It's too late to listen to the wise one
Remember what they're saying, Keep squeezin' what you can
She's a good woman and she's got a good man
Our love will live after all is said and done
Never in my sweet, short life
Did I ever think you'd be the one, you'd be the one
Our love will live after all is said and done
Never in my sweet, short life
Did I ever think you'd be the one, you'd be the one
Twistin' thru the Delta in the moonlight
Evil men in Africa cause the wind to move at night.
They're takin' what they want and leavin' nothing behind
People in Johannesburg are blowin' their minds
I
know we'll live after all is said and done
Never in my wildest dreams
Did I ever think you'd be the one
You'd be the one, you'd be the one, you'd be the one
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TWO-PIECE ON
© 1987 Edgar Lacey See
my baby with her two-piece on
She likes whiskey and havin' fun
Come tomorrow have the blues instead
Of the rock and roll madness that will slap you dead
But the road goes on forever
Oh, that road goes on for good
It goes on for good
Tubin' down the river with nothin' on
She's got her hot cherries bakin' in the noon day sun
Got the blues blarin' on my radio
The Guadalupe River loves everyone
But the road goes on forever
Oh, that road goes on for good
It goes on for good
Cruisin' down the highway on my Harley Davidson
I got my black leather jacket and my heart is beatin' so strong
All my buddies like to pull her chains
I-35 is rumblin' again
But the road goes on forever
Oh, that road goes on for good
It goes on for good
It goes on for good
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ICY ROAD
© 1989 Edgar Lacey The
same icy road that I used to slide on
Smiles back at me lettin' bygones be bygones
Several times in my life the end has passed me by
I know these dangers of spirits behind my eyes
See what your faith in love can bring
On an icy road in harmony with spring
The same icy road that I used to slide on
Smiles back at me lettin' bygones be bygones
Several times in my life the end has passed me by
I know these dangers of spirits behind my eyes
See what your faith in love can bring
On an icy road in harmony with spring, with spring.
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CRIES ON MY
SHOULDER © 1989
Edgar Lacey
Nobody's home, let's
keep it to ourselves
The phone is ringin' but we don't need nobody else
I've got some majic, baby, but I don't feel secure
Of all of the secrets in life, I know you have got the cure
She cries on my shoulder, she's a lot like me
I've got so many choices, it's insanity
I'm waitin' on the corner of this merry-go-round
Tryin' to change the world
She cries on my shoulder, she's a lot like me
I've got so many choices, it's insanity
I'm waitin' on the corner of this merry-go-round
Tryin' to change the world
Go
ahead on, I can't take it no more
Shelves are empty and there ain't no lock on the door
In case the baby comes home cryin'
First, you gotta pick her up, and then go flyin'
She swings to the music, she's a lot like me
I've got so many choices, it's insanity
And I'm waitin' for the moment that the merry-go-round
Keeps changin' the world
Don't you know that I'm tryin' to change the world
Oh, baby, I'm tryin' to change the world.
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SONG ON THE AIR
©1986 Edgar Lacey She's
got me listenin' to my radio
She said she dedicates her favorite little song to me
She's got me breathless
I don't know what to say
But she makes me the happiest man I could ever want to be
I've searched the world over tryin' to find love
And I fall right down on my face
Pick myself up, dust off my pride and get back in the race
It's a little bit funny, I'm just a little bit scared
When I hear my baby's song
When I hear my baby's song
When I hear my baby's song on the air, on the air
She's got me listenin', oh, to my radio
She said she dedicates her favorite little song to me
She's got me breathless
I don't know what to say
But you make me the happiest man I could ever want to be
I've searched the world over tryin' to find love
And I fall right down on my face
Pick myself up, dust off my pride and get back in the race
It's a little bit funny, I'm just a little bit scared
When I hear my baby's song
When I hear my baby's song
When I hear my baby's song on the air, on the air, on the air.
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CHAIN LIGHTNIN'
© 1982 Edgar Lacey Sweet
baby across the hall
Come runnin' when I call
Your daddy hates my kind
Too bad it blows his mind
My goodness is all I can say
Chain lightnin' saves the day
Brown sugar, you taste so fine
This white boy has lost his mind
Guess I'll have to take my place
If your old man should show his face
I'm writin' this one for him
Chain lightnin' strikes again
I'm wonderin' just what he'd say
If he saw the love we made
I guess he's never known
All the times that we've been alone
Hearts beatin' out of sight
Chain lightnin' invades the night
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