Christmas Carols By the Old Corral - Tex Ritter

Well, it's that time of the year again, Everybody's runnin' round Decoratin' everything Before the fat man comes to town Meanwhile, at the commune, he's getting ready too He's Tie Dy'n T-shirts, makin' love beads just for you He's trimmin' up his favorite tree Tokin' what he grew Well he's got the 8-track blastin' Incense burns by candlelight Gene Autry's singin' Rudolph The Grateful Dead do Silent Night And he's seen the evening news and the prospects still look dim But solutions for the planet, he knows, start right here with him So, he'll visualize this sacred night In a world that ain't out on a limb Yeah, it's an old hippie Christmas, weather's cold and hearts are warm Momma smokes a turkey while Daddy smokes cigars It's an old hippie Christmas full of yule time fun Jesus must've been a hippie, peace, and love to everyone Well, the kids make up their wish list, Sunshine wants the A-bomb banned Rainbow wants to go to 'Frisco In an old Volkswagen van And the black lights and the lava lamps are flashin' all about And Santa in his sandals leaves us little doubt That Christmas time is almost here and it's gonna be far out Yeah, it's an old hippie Christmas, weather's cold and hearts are warm Momma smokes a turkey while Daddy smokes cigars It's an old hippie Christmas full of yule time fun Jesus must've been a hippie, peace, and love to everyone Yeah, it's an old hippie Christmas, weather's cold and hearts are warm Momma smokes a turkey while Daddy smokes cigars It's an old hippie Christmas full of yule time fun Jesus must've been a hippie, peace, and love to everyone

The Stone-Josh Ritter Change your face Change your name Rip the roots that you layed down Rip the roots that you layed down You'll keep your hurt You'll keep your pain Close company now Close company now Lying wide awake In a different house With different arms around you now On a different street In a different town On the same old road That the night comes down That the night comes down Love'll burn a hole Through your human doubts And free your heart from the stone Free your heart from the stone And the stone may roll But it'll search you out No matter where you go It'll find you Lying wide awake In a different house With different arms around you now On a different street In a different town On the same old road That the night comes down On the same old road That the night comes down That the night comes down

I got someone on my mind And she don't make me wait the way you do But time Oh she holds me all the time And she don't make me wait the way you do Wait for love Sometimes babe we all have to wait for love I got someone on my mind And she holds me pretty much the way you do But time She holds me all the time And she don't make me wait the way you do Wait for love Sometimes babe we all have to wait for love

I had a dream last night I dreamt that I was swimming And the stars up above Directionless and drifting Somewhere in the dark Were the sirens and the thunder And around me as I swam The drifters who'd gone under Time, love Time, love Time, love Time, love Time, love Time, love It's only a change of time I had a dream last night And rusting far below me Battered hulls and broken hardships Leviathan and Lonely I was thirsty so I drank And though it was salt water There was something 'bout the way It tasted so familiar Time, love Time, love Time, love Time, love Time, love Time, love It's only a change of time The black clouds I'm hanging This anchor I'm dragging The sails of memory rip open in silence We cut through the lowlands All hands through the saltlands The white caps of memory Confusing and violent I had a dream last night And when I opened my eyes Your shoulder blade, your spine Were shorelines in the moon light New worlds for the weary New lands for the living I could make it if I tried I closed my eyes I kept on swimming Time, love Time, love Time, love It's only a change of time Time, love Time, love Time, love It's only a change of time Time, love (rough seas) Time, love (they carry me) Time, love (wherever) It's only a change of time (I go) Time, love (rough seas) Time (they carry me) Time, love (wherever) It's only a change of time (I go) Time, love (rough seas) Time, love (they carry me) Time, love (wherever) It's only a change of time (I go) Time, love (rough seas) Time, love (they carry me) Time, love (wherever) It's only a change of time (I go)

On the night that you were born Your mama who had many friends Took you down across the reach To meet the tide come in There were no lilies from my footsteps There were no temple curtains torn Still I felt you move inside me A strong swimmer to be born The wind was in your hair And your lips were flecked with salt Your eyes were two boats for the moon I said, a strong swimmer you'll be called Now I cannot believe to see The leagues that you have swum Cannot believe you once were me That you and I were one Time only travels one way I'm afraid still I'm a fool Cause in my mind I try to wind The twine back on the spool Now I'm standing on the cliffs Cold sea is far below The birds that float the midway air Like driven flakes of snow I cannot go where you are going I can no longer fight those waves Still I'll watch you til you're out of sight A strong swimmer all the way

Radio waves are coming miles and miles Bringing only empty boats Whatever feeling they had when they sailed Somehow slipped out between the notes Out on the desert now and feeling lost The bonnet wears a wire albatross Monster ballads and the stations of the cross Sighing just a little bit Sighing just a little bit And I was thinking 'bout what Katy done Thinking 'bout what Katy did The fairest daughter of the Pharaoh's son Dressed in gold 'neath pyramids Out on the desert now and feeling lost The bonnet wears a wire albatross Monster ballads and the stations of the cross Sighing just a little bit Sighing just a little bit Ones and zeroes bleeding mesa noise And when you're empty there's so much space for them You turn it off but then a still small voice Comes in blazing from some vast horizon And I was thinking 'bout my river days And I was thinking 'bout me and Jim Passing Cairo on a getaway With every steamboat like a hymn Out on the desert now I'm feeling lost The bonnet wears a wire albatross Monster ballads and the stations of the cross Sighing just a little bit Smiling just a little bit