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The Elves
Live At The Heater 1971 (1971)

Transcribed by Luke Hatton


Wake Up Sunshine
(Unknown)

wake up and smile on me, sunshine. make me feel warmer all the way through. after your love lights are burning. show me the sweet things i know you can do. i have to leave for a long time. hope that your loving can wait till i'm gone. memories of you will be all that i have. to keep up my spirit and carry me on. baby, in my whole life, i may never find another who could do what you do. oh i'd be a fool to spend the rest of my life without you. oh my darling, in the rest of my life, i may never find another. never find another, never find another, find another lover like you. everywhere i go i meet a million pretty women. all wanting, wanting to be loved by me. but it don't mean a thing. no, it don't mean a thing. oh no, no, no. wake up and smile on me, sunshine. make me feel warmer all the way through. after your love lights are burning. show me the sweet things i know you can do. oh my darling, in the rest of my life, i may never find another. never find another, never find another, find another lover like you.

Smile For Me Lady
(Unknown)

smile for me, lady, i've come so far to see you. smile for me, lady, i've come so far to worship you. and when your picture escapes from my mind. won't you smile, won't you smile, won't you smile for me, lady, you're mine. shine for me, starlight, lead me to my lady. shine for me, starlight, and lead me to my own true love. and before her sweet words fade into time. won't you smile, won't you smile, won't you smile for me, lady, you're mine. countless roads i've travelled. countless days i've been away but i'm holding on. stranger, please leave from my door. i don't know you, i don't know you any more. smile for me, lady, i've come so far to see you. smile for me, lady, i've come so far to worship you. and when your picture escapes from my mind. won't you smile, won't you smile, won't you smile for me, lady, you're mine.

Rosemarie
(Unknown)

rosemarie, i miss the love you were giving me. where did you go? i ain't seen you in a dog's age. the last i heard, you were heading on down the highway. rosemarie, i miss you, girl, every day. i just stay at work, i make [?????] down in little rock. he said he saw you leaping off of a midnight train. he said he called for you but you just kept on going. toward mississippi where the cotton fields are growing. couldn't you see what's stricken in the hope in bomley? where did you go, girl? i ain't seen you in a dog's age. lorraine-louise said she ain't had no postcard. she said she hoped you ain't sleeping in the rail yard. rosemarie, i miss the love you were giving me. we had some hard times, my cheeks were freezing. for all i know, you might have gone to mexico. rosemarie, can you hear me singing i miss you so? oh rosemarie, rosemarie.

You Felt the Same Way
(Unknown)

blindly i stare at the mirror, reflecting how time has flown. memory of when i was a prince, and i sat on your velvet throne. feeling you're just like a dog when you gave me the chance. now i'd gladly turn into a frog and dance you away again. it's funny how people change places, just like some big checker game. so rich when they went to the races, then looking for someone to blame. feeling you're just like a slave whenever i chose. now i'd gladly turn into the earth in under your toes. you felt the same way 'cause i did that to you. you felt the same way 'cause i did that to you. learning to live with the little things happening every day. like giving your whole life to someone, watching them throw you away. passing you by on the street, not stopping to speak. now i'd gladly turn into the tears that roll down my cheek. you felt the same way. you felt the same way. you felt the same way 'cause i did that to you. oh i did that to you. you know how it feels. got to show me, show me the way.

Driftin'
(Unknown)

girl, won't you come, won't you come with me? you know it's not every day you get to be. everything you always wanted to be. go everywhere you always wanted to go. girl, won't you come, won't you come with me? you know it's not every day you get to see. everything you've always wanted to see. and do everything you always wanted to do. relax your mind and you'll be drifting with me. i can feel it moving me, all right, let it go. if i were the king of hearts. i could watch the joker running wild. making a fool of somebody. if i were the jack of knaves. sort of mingle with the queen. while the king sort of mingled with the trade. if i were the joker. i'd tell the king about the queen. i'd tell the king about the jack of knaves. tell the queen about the king. tell the queen about the trade. i'd tell them all about each other. girl, won't you come, won't you come with me? relax your mind and you'll be drifting. have i gone everywhere i want to go? done everything i want to do? seen everything i want to see? have i been everyone i want to be? i've seen all the sights, lord, i see. from the peasant to the crown, lord. i'm so sick and tired of mixing, yes, yes, i am. time to come on down, down, down, down, down. time to come on down. i got to come on down. girl, won't you come, won't you come with me? relax your mind and you'll be drifting with me. all right, feel it drifting on a cloud, all gone, oh lord.

Saturday Night
(Unknown)

backwards woman with shoes on her feet. here she comes shuffling down the street. find herself fixed up and looking all right. it must be saturday night. i had my eyes on you all along. feel with me, baby, and it won't be wrong. i've got it all planned and i'm coming home fast. it must be saturday night. let me dance you across the floor once more. let me walk you right through that cabin door. let me give you couple of lessons so you won't be afraid to miss. i can't let you leave alone. baby, you've got to let me promenade you home. saturday night, saturday night, it's all right on a saturday night. the place don't know have a dance in stall. back and low and she is the law. don't be afraid i'm going to be out of sight. all on a saturday night. going to just [????????????], fever last dance. come on, honey, won't you give me a chance? just be a woman like i know you can do. and love me with saturday night, it's true. let me dance you across the floor once more. let me walk you right through that cabin door. let me give you couple of lessons so you won't be afraid to miss. i can't let you leave alone. baby, you've got to let me promenade you home. saturday night, saturday night, it's all right on a saturday night.

Cross-eyed Mary
(Anderson)

who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief. if he had a rich man in his hand? who would steal the candy from a laughing baby's mouth. if he could take it from the money man? cross-eyed mary goes jumping in again. she signs no contract but she always plays the game. she dines in hampstead village on expense accounted gruel. and the jack knife barber drops her off at school. laughing in the playground, gets no kicks from little boys. would rather make it with a letching gray. or maybe her attention is drawn by aqualung. who watches through the railings as they play. cross-eyed mary finds it hard to get along. she's a poor man's rich girl and she'll do it for a song. she's a rich man's stealer but her favour's good and strong. she's the robin hood of highgate, helps the poor man get along.

Stay With Me
(Stewart/Wood)

in the morning, don't say you love me. 'cause i'll only kick you out of the door. i know your name is rita. 'cause your perfume's smelling sweeter. since when i saw you down on the floor. i don't need to be persuaded. i don't mean to sound degrading. but with a face like that you got nothing to laugh about. red lips, hair and fingernails. i hear you're a mean old jezebel. let's go up stairs and read my tarot cards. stay with me, stay with me. for tonight you'd better stay with me. stay with me, stay with me. for tonight you'd better stay with me. so in the morning, don't say you love me. 'cause i'll only kick you out of the door. i'll pay your cab fare home. you can even use my best cologne. just don't be here in the morning when i wake up. stay with me, stay with me. for tonight you'd better stay with me. stay with me, stay with me. for tonight you'd better stay with me.

Little Queenie
(Berry)

well, there she is again, standing over by the record machine. well, she looks like a model on the cover of a magazine. but she's too cute to be a minute over seventeen. meanwhile, i was thinking. well, if it's a slow one, we'll omit it. if it's a rocker, then we'll get it. if it's a good one, she'll admit it. come on, queenie, let's get with it. go, go, go, little queenie. go, go, go, little queenie. go, go, go, little queenie. meanwhile, i was still thinking. well, if she's in the mood, no need to break it. i got the chance and i ought to take it. if she can dance we can make it. come on, queenie, let's shake it. go, go, go, little queenie. go, go, go, little queenie. go, go, go, little queenie.

Johnny B. Goode
(Berry)

deep down louisiana, close to new orleans. way back up in the woods among the evergreens. there stood a log cabin made of earth and wood. where lived a country boy named johnny b. goode. who never ever learned to read or write so well. but he could play the guitar just like a ringing a bell. go go. go, johnny, go, go. go, johnny, go, go. go, johnny, go, go. go, johnny, go, go. johnny b. goode. he used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack. go sit beneath the tree by the railroad track. oh the engineers would see him sitting in the shade. strumming with the rhythm that the drivers made. people passing by they would stop and say. oh my that little country boy could play. go go. go, johnny, go, go. go, johnny, go, go. go, johnny, go, go. go, johnny, go, go. johnny b. goode. his mother told him, "some day you will be a man. and you will be the leader of a big old band. many people coming from miles around. to hear you play your music when the sun go down. maybe someday your name will be in lights. saying johnny b. goode tonight". go go. go, johnny, go, go. go, johnny, go, go. go, johnny, go, go. go, johnny, go, go. johnny b. goode.

Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On
(David/Williams)

come on over, baby, whole lot of shaking going on. come on over, baby, baby, you can't go wrong. we ain't faking, whole lot of shaking going on. come on over, baby, we got chicken in the boiler. come on over, baby, we really got the bull by the horn. i ain't faking, whole lot of shaking going on. shake, baby, shake. shake, baby, shake. shake, baby, shake. come on over, whole lot of shaking going on.

An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down
(Stewart)

did you ever stand and shiver while looking at a freezing river? have you froze to the bone with just a coat to keep you warm. to keep you from a howling wind. to keep you from a howling wind. have you perished in the drizzling rain? tried to light a lift but all in vain? with your sock on your head and that old coat on your back. to keep you from the drizzling rain. to keep you from the drizzling rain. did you sleep in a graveyard when it snowed? laid your head on a pillow? with the times on your face and that old coat on your back. that kept you from a-withering away. that kept you from a-withering away. and did you ride a lift on a steam train? had the misfortune not to pay your fare? thrown off the next stop, thrown in the doorway of a shop. with that coat to keep you from the wind. with that old school coat to keep you from the wind. have you had some good friends on the road with you. who'd stand by you through thick and thin? here's to kevin and ben, susie and len. and that coat, which never lets you down. it never, never, never lets you down. it never, never, never lets you down. that old coat which never lets you down. that old coat which never lets you down. kept me from the drizzling rain. kept me from the drizzling rain.

Cold Ramona
(Unknown)

so you just want to go see a drive-in show, ramona. you just want to keep your eyes glued on the screen. you don't want to put your arm around me. colder, baby, colder through to mean. you just want to look at doris charles [???????????????]. you don't want to see [?????????] crack his head with a union jack. you just want to go see [??????????????????????]. you don't want to see rodney copper shoot the man with a chequered hat. so you just want to go see a drive-in show, ramona. you just want to keep your eyes glued on the screen. you don't want to put your arm around me. colder, baby, colder through to mean. so you just want to go see dustin hoffman change his faces. when i try to move close to you, you just keep on changing places. just want to go and boo the bad guy, cheer when he gets cool. you don't want to see diane chad but old little dope with elliot gould. so you just want to go see a drive-in show, ramona. you just want to keep your eyes glued on the screen. you don't want to put your arm around me. colder, baby, colder through to mean. ramona, colder through to mean.

Black Dog
(Jones/Page/Plant)

hey, hey, mama, said the way you move. going to make you sweat, going to make you groove. hey, hey, child the way you shake that thing. going to make you burn, going to make you sting. hey, hey, baby, when you walk that way. watch your honey drip, can't keep away. i got to roll, can't stand still. got a flaming heart, can't get my fill. eyes that shine, burning red. dreams of you all through my head. hey, baby, oh baby, pretty baby. darling, can't you do me now? hey, baby, oh baby, pretty baby. move the way you're moving now. didn't take too long before i found out. what people mean by down and out. spent my money, took my car. started telling her friends she going to be a star. i don't know, but i been told. a big legged woman ain't got no soul. all i ask for, all i pray. steady rolling woman going to come my way. need a woman going to hold my hand. won't tell me no lies, make me a happy man.

Lura Lura
(Unknown)

lura, lura, lura. lura, lura, li. lura, lura, lura. send her home to me. some say she lives in the countryside. some say she lives by the sea. her spirit while casting a shadow. will send her home to me. floating on air like a butterfly. fleeting, fading away. her spirit and i am perfection. will send her all through space. lura, lura, lura. lura, lura, li. lura, lura, lura. some say she dwells in the free land. some say she dwells with the chain. her spirit while casting a shadow. welding every day. some say she lives in the forest land. some say she lives in the sky. some say she lives at the crossroads. between my [???????????].

Four Day Creep
(Cox/Marriott)

i want you to love me. make the hair stand on my head. i want you to love me. make me dizzy, make me feel it here. i want you to love me. make me feel like a hurricane. i want you to love me. 'cause i love her again. i want you to love me. make the hair stand on my head. i want you to love me. make me dizzy, make me feel it here.

Give Me A Chance
(Unknown)

pretty girl that needs some every day. rolling across the u.s.a. love finds love don't last. said, lord, going to make them fine. just got to take me home. ma said, son, you just leave alone. give me a chance, give me a chance. give me a chance, give me a chance. i'm just a country boy, i'm out on my own. when you came along in a toker home. said, son, she's going to step on you. i say i'm going to number two. said, son, going to tell you true. she's going to step on you. give me a chance, give me a chance. give me a chance, give me a chance. i'm waiting steel, going across the u.s.a. took me a long to walk the place. said, son, give me away. just play, play ahead. one night, after the show. said, son, hate to see you go. give me a chance, give me a chance. give me a chance, give me a chance.

Aqualung
(Anderson/Anderson)

sitting on a park bench. eyeing little girls with bad intent. snot running down his nose. greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes. hey, aqualung. drying in the cold sun. watching as the frilly panties run. hey, aqualung. feeling like a dead duck. spitting out pieces of his broken luck. hey, aqualung. sun streaking cold, an old man wandering lonely. takes his time the only way he knows. leg hurting bad, as he bends to pick a dog end. he goes down to the bog and warms his feet. feeling alone, the army's up the road. salvation ‡ la mode and a cup of tea. aqualung, my friend, don't start away uneasy. you poor old sod, you see, it's only me. do you still remember december's foggy freeze. when the ice that clings onto your beard is screaming agony? and you snatch your rattling last breaths with deep sea diver sounds. and the flowers bloom like madness in the spring.

Drown Me In The River
(Unknown)

i've always been a hard luck gambler. lost my money down in san francisco. finally made my way back to tennessee. that's where i begged a little lady. listen to, then she had to tell me. bad guarantee make me out a man, feel it. take me down and told me with a smile. we've been wrong, this eagle's sold out. plan, fifty, fifty, she showed me how to love. say the words now. sweet daughter of a rambling preacher. i'll be the gun, she will be the teacher. i can't always fight, an arrival that beachhead line. how did it feel? [???????????????????]. put the lead in, i'm doing it for. for feeling that loving fire, hey, i don't know. drown me, drown me in the river. let me be the taker, her be the giver. just one time, one time, got to get a taste of heaven. drown me, mister piglet man. given up the life of a one night stand. lady, going to do it all over again. little lady really kept the deal. put a gun that she feels. pay the line of money, lord, in a very short while. she said, i think we better split now. love's coming, a face of money. and you sure know have to love saint louis style. drown me, drown me in the river. let me be the taker, her be the giver. just one time, one time, got to get a taste of heaven. drown me, mister piglet man. given up the life of a one night stand. lady, going to do it all over again.

Simple Man
(Graham Nash)

i am a simple man and i sing a simple song. never been so much in love, never hurt so bad at the same time. i am a simple man and i sing a simple tune. wish that i could see you once again across the road like the first time. i just want to hold you, don't want to hold you down. i hear what you're saying, spinning my head around, i can't make it alone. the ending of the tune is the singing of the song. make me proud to be your man, only you can make me strong like the last time. i just want to hold you, don't want to hold you down. i hear what you're saying, spinning my head around, i can't make it alone.

Won't Get Fooled Again
(Townsend)

we'll be fighting in the streets. with our children at our feet. and the morals that they worship will be gone. and the men who spurred us on. sit in judgement of all wrong. they decide and the shotgun sings the song. i'll tip my hat to the new constitution. take a bow for the new revolution. smile and grin at the change all around. pick up my guitar and play just like yesterday. then i'll get on my knees and pray. we don't get fooled again. the change, it had to come. we knew it all along. we were liberated from the fold, that's all. and the world looks just the same. and history ain't changed. 'cause the banners, they are flown in the next war. i'll tip my hat to the new constitution. take a bow for the new revolution. smile and grin at the change all around. pick up my guitar and play just like yesterday. then i'll get on my knees and pray. we don't get fooled again. i'll move myself and my family aside. if we happen to be left half alive. i'll get all my papers and smile at the sky. though i know that the hypnotised never lie.

Baba O'Riley
(Townsend)

out here in the fields, i fought for my meals. i get my back into my living. i don't need to fight to prove i'm right. i don't need to be forgiven. don't cry, don't raise your eye. it's only teenage wasteland. sally, take my hand, we'll travel south across land. put out the fire, don't look past my shoulder. the exodus is here, the happy ones are near. so let's get together before we get much older. teenage wasteland. they're all wasted.

Won't Get Fooled Again (Reprise)
(Townsend)

there's nothing in the streets. looks any different to me. and the slogans are replaced by the bye. and the parting on the left. are now parting on the right. and the beards have all grown longer overnight. i'll tip my hat to the new constitution. take a bow for the new revolution. smile and grin at the change all around. pick up my guitar and play just like yesterday. then i'll get on my knees and pray. we don't get fooled again. meet the new boss. same as the old boss.

Pisces Apple Lady
(Russell)

got to get off my bottle, get down and see a friend. i'll know what to do when i tell him how bad it's been. he said, "you ought to get away to the english countryside. 'cause crying won't help you now, boy, why don't you look how many tears you cried". when i got down to chelsea, i had no great expectations. to get away from the delta girl and the painful situation. but i hardly had the time to laugh and look around. when i found my heart was going again like english leaps and pounds. she's a pisces apple lady, when she's speaking softly. she screams she's really got herself together. she's a pisces apple lady, she took me by surprise. and i fell into a hundred pieces right before her eyes. and now we're together all the way to l.a. i know that i love her 'cause she can brighten up a smoggy day. if i believed in marriage i'd take her for my wife. and move on down into high gear, baby, for the rest of my natural life. she's a pisces apple lady, when she's speaking softly. she screams she's really got herself together. she's a pisces apple lady, she took me by surprise. and i fell into a hundred pieces right before her eyes.

Dirty Dollar Bill
(Unknown)

back down over my baby. i got rats in my head. hell don't under my hell. i have nothing but lead. my chef's in the till. i got nothing to sell. i don't open my mail. ooh down read them and fail. dirty dollar bill. dirty old dollar bill. dirty dollar bill. dirty old dollar bill.

Buckingham Blues
(Unknown)

lord, help me, someone's sleeping in my bed at night. lord, help me, someone's sleeping in my bed at night. and my best friend's woman, she sure looks out of sight. lord, roll over, there's something here you got to see. roll me over, [??????????????????????????????????]. what good's a neighbour? it's good for brother [????????]. go a little faster, watching the world come gliding through. doing all the social, i've got the low down, wash down, cutting buckingham blues. oh paranoia, [?????????????????????????????]. caught in the kitchen, i know the luck is getting old. baby, sees it, come on, rules [???????????????]. lord, help me, [???????????????????????????]. [?????????????????????????????????????????]. they're back in buckingham getting off the railroad. go a little faster, watching the world come gliding through. doing all the social, i've got the low down, wash down, gunning, fall down, arse in hand, on the fan, blow it up, buckingham blues. lord, i got the buckingham blues.

So Long
(Unknown)

if you need a good man, oh luck be a lady. going to knock it over [???????????????]. if you need a good man, do you see clear, baby? where you keep talking [???????????????]. so long, so long, so long, baby, so long. too long, too long, too long, baby, too long. if you need a good man, oh luck be a lady. going to knock it over [???????????????]. if you need a good man, do you see clear, baby? where you keep talking [???????????????]. so long, so long, so long, baby, so long. too long, too long, too long, baby, too long. so long, so long, so long, baby, so long. too long, too long, too long, baby, too long.

You Shook Me
(Dixon)

you know you shook me, you shook me all night long. you know you shook me, you shook me all night long. when you loved me, woman, sure messed up my happy home. well, every time you loved me, felt like a hurricane. well, every time you loved me, felt like a hurricane. when you did it to me, lady, messed up my happy home.

Rock's Boogie
(Unknown)

i know you need a tall rock and roll man. no doubt about it, honey, i want to hold your hand. [?????????????????]. big city women, they're driving me to kill. show me a [?????????????????, ?????????????????]. [?????????????????]. i guess you know how to boogie, i guess you understand. i guess you know how to boogie, i guess you understand. when you boogie, boogie woogie, boogie woogie, baby.

War Pigs
(Butler/Iommi/Osbourne/Ward)

generals gathered in their masses. just like witches at black masses. evil minds that plot destruction. sorcerers of death's construction. in the fields the bodies burning. as the war machine keeps turning. death and hatred to mankind. poisoning their brainwashed minds. oh lord yeah. politicians hide themselves away. they only started the war. why should they go out to fight? they leave that all to the poor. time will tell on their power minds. making war just for fun. treating people just like pawns in chess. wait till their judgment day comes. now in darkness world stops turning. as the war machine keeps burning. no more war pigs have the power. hand of god has struck the hour. day of judgment god is calling. on their knees, the war pigs crawling. begging mercy for their sins. satan laughing spreads his wings. oh lord yeah.