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Early Away
03:53
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Early Away
On the morn of summers day –with the treed and flowered breezes
As the world was quiet still but for the birds and for the birds
And as the eastern sun did cast it’s paint upon the valley
It found my horse my hound and I early away
Chorus
For to run the Jersey land Run the Jersey land
Run the Jersey land a glowing
Run the Jersey land Run the Jersey land
Run the Jersey land again
So clean so clean the sky what ere befell the eye was beauty
And the horse did canter smooth and strong and the hound was there beside
We broke the morning dew and cut the rivers mist arising
And the each of us we knew this joy early away
Chorus
For to run the Jersey land Run the Jersey land
Run the Jersey land a glowing
Run the Jersey land Run the Jersey land
Run the Jersey land again
And we rambled in the hills and we scampered through the lowlands
And the hours spent were perfect time til home again and home again
Now the day full have has gone but for we tis more completed
To have seen the world before the world early away
Chorus
For to run the Jersey land Run the Jersey land
Run the Jersey land a glowing
Run the Jersey land Run the Jersey land
Run the Jersey land again
Ross Douglas SOCAN
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2. |
Filling In the Years
04:15
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Filling in the Years
I feel the ticking of the clock –time wants to run I need to walk
So it drags me like a rock won’t listen to my jive
It’s pulled me here to early mid where most of me feels like a kid
And not the one who lifts the lid on decade number five
Filling in the years filling in the years
And suddenly there comes a day
Filling in the years filling in the years
And ya see how quick the years have slipped away
A strand of grey a fleck of snow that wasn’t there a week ago
Now I’m filled from head to toe with panic pure and strong
A flash of insecurity a tidal wave of vanity
Like something deep inside of me has said I got it wrong
Filling in the years filling in the years
And suddenly there comes a day
Filling in the years filling in the years
And ya see how quick the years have slipped away
All those rules I yet to break and all that cash I’ve yet to make
And all that stuff that I have yet to be
It’s tellin me I’ve gotta choose just what to keep and what to lose
It moves without remorse a nonrenewable resource
It’s never gonna wait on me
Now all those shoes I didn’t fill and didn’t need an never will
Have stopped to give me one last kick while walkin out the door
And now these lines upon my face that wandered in to take their place
The simple pictures that they trace are ones I can’t ignore
Filling in the years filling in the years
And suddenly there comes a day
Filling in the years filling in the years
And ya see how quick the years have slipped away
Ross Douglas SOCAN
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3. |
Julian
02:35
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Julian
Chorus
Julian Julian –he’s a tiny little mon
He like a things with all his might
And he’ll go to be but it takes a fight
Cuz
He like a fishes that he caught
He like a skateboard that he’s got
He like a stories when they’re read
He just don’t like going to bed
Chorus
Cuz
He like Navio - he like school
He like swimming in the tidal pool
He like bein a Ninja man
And goin to bed as late as he can
Chorus
Julian Julian es un hombre pequeno
Julian Julian ay yi yi que nino
He likes animals he like tricks
He likes bein silly and bein six
There’s so many things that this boy like
That’s why he don’t wanna go to bed at night
Chorus
Ross Douglas SOCAN
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4. |
Chapeau Girl
04:16
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Chapeau Girl
I live up here by the Chapeau boys every night I hear em singin away for all the world
They fire their guns and shout like stink- but there’s no need to fear em
But I got the shakes for that Chapeau girl
With the braid in her hair and her smell on the wind
She give me more kinda dreams than a man should ever know
I’ll go back in my mine – I’ll carve a design to a Chapeau girl I can call my own
It was May 26th in 86- I’ll never forget it the day she came to Barkerville
Thought my heart would burst right out of my chest – and how I let it
It flew to her and always will
To the spark in her eyes and the grace about her
To the voice like a bird with tiny wings
I’ll go back to my mine – and carve a design to a Chapeau girl and I’ll sing
Round here I’m know as “The bear mouth man”
Cuz I killed a beast in 82 and stuck his teeth into my head
I could never show my face to her
Cuz she ain’t never seen no thing like me in all those fancy books she’s read
I got a dog who’s nearly blind every night I hear him dreamin
Chasin things he’ll never find
I’d give all the gold on the Cameron claim –every nugget I see gleamin
Just to feel her lips on mine
I see her the best on a Sunday morn
As she passes may way to the Saviour Church
So I’ll tip her my hat and say “That is That”
Oh my she’s the Chapeau girl
RossDouglas SOCAN
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5. |
Precious Thing
04:30
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Precious Thing
I feel you in the distance – it’s a pleasure and a pain
So near and yet so far so right and so in vain
I know we cannot have this yet but still it will remain
Oh Oh Oh a precious thing
Chorus
I got a feelin like a whole lotta love
Feelin like a whole lotta love
Burnin and turnin and swellin up in me
I got a feelin like a whole lotta love way deep down inside
Oh Oh Oh for precious times
We sparked it up so easy – it was a low and constant flame
You somewhat fed the fire I somewhat did the same
For all our claimed indifference it certainly became
Oh oh oh a precious thing
I got a feelin like a whole lotta love
Feelin like a whole lotta love
Burnin and turnin and swellin up in me
I got a feelin like a whole lotta love way deep down inside
Oh Oh Oh for precious times
And I want a do it do it do it
Break the bed I two
I wanna do It do it do it
Wanna stick it to you
We can call it lousy timing or a fractured destiny
Or something perfect that what was not yet meant to be
I know I’m feelin wretched but through it all I see
A precious thing
I got a feelin like a whole lotta love
Feelin like a whole lotta love
Burnin and turnin and swellin up in me
I got a feelin like a whole lotta love way deep down inside
Oh Oh Oh for precious times
I wanna do it do it do it up against the door
I wanna do it do it do it til my mouth don’t work anymore
Ross Douglas SOCAN
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6. |
Magdalena
04:09
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Magdalena
Magdalena on the boardwalk –tiny flower in her hair
Making such a pretty picture gazing out on the ocean
Local boys they want her madly – young machismo fills the air
Every kind of invitation – but she never ever go
Magdalena don’t want the island man
She want a sailor one who can take her way from here
Magdalena she got a different plan
She want a life of her own
Magdalena waiting tables – service at an all time low
All her customers are starving cuz of her preoccupation
Her attention’s on the barroom looking for her latest beau
A healthy boy from California – coming in from the base
Magdalena don’t want the island man
She want a sailor one who can take her way from here
Magdalena she got a different plan
She want a life of her own
She has seen her seven sisters marry and defer
Now she’s got their seven husbands coming on to her
Every night a new borracho tries a tired line
Every day she wants a place of different design
Cuz
Magdalena don’t want the island man
She want a sailor one who can take her way from here
Magdalena she got a different plan
She want a life of her own
Magdalena hace mucho mucho calor
Magdalena tengo mucho mucho amor
Ross Douglas SOCAN
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7. |
Stereo Lover Boy
03:21
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Stereo Lover Boy
When the day is getting crazy and the night begins to freeze
You feel your sense of humor drop 95 degrees
You need some sweet affection and a double shot of joy
Sounds like an assignment for your Stereo Lover By
Chorus
S- I’m Sensitive
T- to how you live
E – the Ecstasy’s the very thing you get from me
R – I’m a Romeo
E – I will excite your soul
O- O- O yo Soy
Stereo lover boy
When you want to feel excited but all you feel is pain
Feels like your existence been hit by a hurricane
You got no roof on your casa – you got rocks in your arroyo
Time to call long distance for your Stereo lover Boyo
Chorus
OO STEREO STEREO STEREO
OO STEREO STEREO
I once was single minded but then I spit in two
Cuz I could fill two people with the stuff I got for you
I beam from two directions – you’re covered high or low
One thing that you got for sure is the love in Stereo!
Chorus
Ross Douglas SOCAN
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8. |
Bougainvillea Bobby
04:35
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Bougainvillaea Bobby
Colored flowers pink and white catch the ripple of the morning light
Lizard giving every bug a fright near the table where he sits
Coffee’s drunk and papers read as the sugar birds fly around his head
He’s a country boy and a thoroughbred with a manner that befits
Chorus
Bougainvillaea Bobby – he’s the baron of the flamboyan
He went and put this monkey house into the vision of a man
Bougainvillaea Bobby - nice to me as the day is long
And sharper than the picket fence that runs around his land
Health is lousy, heart is great, spirit’s bigger than the Empire state
Standing there at his front gate you know you wanna stay
Short on patience long on soul – he is skinny as a fishing pole
Get him on a story telling roll you laugh the night away
Chorus
Bridge
Well he worked up north for the movie stars you can see them on his walls
But the spirit that is there with him is lighter and yet brighter than them all
Well connected he’s so cool - names he drops would fill a swimming pool
Dolphins turned up by the school they heard he’s back in town
Off the record on the ball - always handling another call
Even lying down he’s standing tall in the hearts of all around
Chorus
Ross Douglas SOCAN
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9. |
You Keep a Burnin
03:33
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You Keep a Burning
We rock and we do wrangle oh we rumble through the day
But I know that I’m a tangle lost in your delicious ways
You got the fire oh yeah – you are the ever rising flame
Chorus
You keep a burnin hoy ya hoy yay
Keep Burnin in my heart
You keep a burnin hoy ya hoy yay
Keep Burnin in my heart
You keep mattering to me
With every petty notion that we might complain about
There may be some commotion but we’re never down and out
You got the fire oh yeah – you are the ever rising flame
You keep a burnin hoy ya hoy yay
Keep Burnin in my heart
You keep a burnin hoy ya hoy yay
Keep Burnin in my heart
You keep mattering to me
We got the automatic reason We got the automatic rhyme
We got the automatic reason
Your Flame Your flame – keeps burnin mine
You got the fire oh yeah – you are the ever rising flame
You keep a burnin hoy ya hoy yay
Keep Burnin in my heart
You keep a burnin hoy ya hoy yay
Keep Burnin in my heart
You keep mattering to me
Ross Douglas SOCAN
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10. |
Animal Breathing
03:24
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Animal Breathing
Oh the light has come with the water beating on the land
In a steady hum since yesterday when it began
Far beyond the drum far beyond the smell of man
Oh do they come all the animal breathing
Oh come they may as timeless ritual permits
O come they may while the grasses prosper
Oh come they may with every move they will not quit
The animals breathing –the animals breathing
Ross Douglas SOCAN
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Ross Douglas Point Roberts, Washington
Ross Douglas is an award winning songwriter with 4 albums of original song and a jaunty performance manner. He is eclectic - with influences of folk, jazz ,pop and theatre weaving their way into his music. He is in many cases a story teller. Check him out at www.rossdouglassongs.com ... more
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