I come from Alabama With my banjo on my knee I'm goin' to Louisiana My true love for to see Oh, Susanna Oh, don't you cry for me I've come from Alabama With my banjo on my knee It rained all night, the day I left The weather it was dry The sun so hot, I froze to death Susanna, don't you cry Oh, Susanna Oh, don't you cry for me I've come from Alabama With my banjo on my knee Oh, Susanna Oh, don't you cry for me 'Cause I've come from Alabama With my banjo on my knee 'Cause I've come from Alabama With my banjo on my knee

Well I come from Alabama With my banjo on my knee And I'm bound for Louisiana My true love for to see Well it rained all night the day I left The weather it was dry The sun so hot I froze myself Susanna, don't you cry Oh! Susanna Oh, don't you cry for me Well I come from Alabama With my banjo on my knee I had a dream the other night When every thing was still I dreamed I saw Susanna She was coming down the hill Her red, red rose was in her mouth The tear was in her eye Said I come from Alabama Now Susanna, don't you cry Oh! Susanna Don't you cry for me Well I come from Alabama With my banjo on my knee Well I've come from Alabama With my banjo on my knee The land of Louisiana somewhere I want to be

Well, I come from Alabama with My banjo on my knee I'm goin' to Louisiana my True love for to see It rained all night the day I left The weather was bone dry And the sun so hot I froze to death Susanna, don't you cry Oh Susanna Don't you cry for me I come from Alabama with My banjo on my knee Well, I had a dream the other night When everything was still I dreamed I saw Susanna A-comin' down the hill A buckwheat cake was in her mouth A tear was in her eye I said "I'm comin' from the south Susanna, don't you cry" Oh Susanna Don't you cry for me I come from Alabama with My banjo on my knee Well, I soon will be at New Orleans and when I do arrive I'll go and find our Susanna If she is still alive And if I do not find that girl Well, I will surely die Oo, when I'm buried in my grave Susanna, don't you cry Oh Susanna Don't you cry for me I come from Alabama with My banjo on my knee

Was a long night turned into a long day back into a long night left to go My worries were as many and as bright and as broken as the reflectors in the middle of the road. I guess I became a danger and all my friends became strangers, I was feeling as cold and as alone. As a new lovers hell and I can already tell that I wasnt going home. No, I aint going home Cause I... want to feel. Like something God made. Even if it hurts sometime And I... want to live And die the long way. Even if its hard sometime. I'm sitting in a heartache and looking at kalediscopes Peeping through the bottom of my glass I'm plenty old to drink but still pretty young to think That my future might be shorter than my past. Theres a new light chasing off the moonlight making way for those with someplace to go Their gonna close the doors after one more song But I aint going home No I aint going home. Cause I... want to feel. Like something God made. Even if it hurts sometime And I... want to live And die the long way. Even if its hard sometime. God send me a radio, send me a song That will send me far away, send me back home. Give me a reason, give me a way Bring me tomorrow and wash away today Give me everything I want Give me everything I need Give me all the means... to believe Cause I... want to feel. Like something God made. Even if it hurts sometime And I... want to live And die the long way. Even if its hard sometime.

The winter here is a week one, even it don't like to hang out here to long Just rolls into town and clocks in and sleeps until all the leaves are gone The sunlight is strategizing, trying to skip right over town The humidity's the only thing to gladly stick around All the rest of us are stuck here for reasons we cannot explain Everybody here's a stranger we just know each others names All our sunrise reverends are sunset sinners too We'll be better by our criminals than we will be by you So when you're crossing this city This city will cross you Draw a line through your name I've got a line through mine Round about last call on dauphin street there's a short parade that scatters from the bars A bunch of pretty girls with blistered feet that dig for their keys and try to find their cars In those high heeled shoes that they should've know better than to ever wear They do a compact mirror makeup check and they exercise that stare they're gonna use To turn somebody's head Paint another color on their blues Me I'm keeping my eyes peeled for one in sensible shoes How i hope you find me I hope you do it soon It don't feel like you're trying but darling if you do This place is beautiful the way it mystifies its bad Just like if Norman Rockwell painted a methamphetamine lab All our consciences are busted they're off doing their own thing They'd rather make their living some place else by any other means They say everyone who's climbed on top this city's soapbox Has leaped from it to their death son Of this i am sure I'm no exception

In the south of Alabamy, near the Gulf of Mexico On the banks of old Tombigbee Walks an old, lost forgotten soul He was once a man of virtue Sadly less a man of means Said, Cecilia I won't let them hurt you I'll set you free, I'll set you free Cause my love for you is stronger than these plantation walls It howls at the moon at night It don't know about the law And it is at your beg and call I said, Cecilia don't you cry By and by, Cecilia don't you cry She was born into subjection She was born without a say He was her first and only revelation That she might not die that way I will love you all the seasons What you want is what I'll be I'll be your rock, I'll be your reason Just set me free, Oh just set me free Cause my heart is so much stronger than these plantation walls It howls at the moon at night It don't care about the law And every night I hear it call I'll set us free Cecilia, don't you cry By and by, Cecilia don't you cry He had never been inclined to help another man to die Until the bossman finally wished to leave With Cecilia at his side, under that dark October sky They climbed upon their boat and left that man to bleed, bleed No sooner than the bossman died His fairy fell out of the sky A racer's storm was on the hunt they say And revenge it what a boat And sank his one and only hope As he heard Cecilia's cries fading away In the south of Alabamy, near the Gulf of Mexico On the banks of old Tombigbee Walks an old, lost forgotten soul From those mirky, shallow waters To the Carribean Sea You can hear him cry Cecilia come set me free Oh, come set me free Cecilia, please come set me free Come set me free, Come set me free Cecili, please come set me free

I remember I was singing about September When you walked across the boardwalk to that smoky bar And I'd been singing for the last six nights And I could barely talk to tell you just how pretty you were But you were as pretty as a preachers wife on Sunday I was useless like a church bell on a Friday night And I felt like a tragedy all dressed in dirty clothes When you walked out before I could say How when you stepped in And the world stopped spinning I gotta let you know Just how I've become an artist And how things fall apart It's the only thing I know Won't you just stay here We can just stay here We can just stay here Won't you just stay here Spent the whole next night on the telephone We were both alone just waiting on a change And I remember I felt as suave as a prom date 15 minutes late in a rented suit and his mothers car The next night was a Monday and you came over to my house We hardly talked about anything, but it never got quiet until we Kissed our first of many and the clock hands took reprieve From the round the clock labor of their day to day 'Cause when you steped in And the world stopped spinning I've gotta let you know That I know it will I don't know when that time will matter again But I don't want to let you go Won't you just stay here Won't you just stay here We can just lay here We can just lay here I was thinking I'd swing by sometime around midnight Turn my headlights off when I get near And let's say you and me, we get the hell out of this town 'Cause we're the only thing that ever happened here I've got 50 dollars and if we ride with the windows down And I screen my smokes I think we'll make it into Georgia And improvise from there And everybody knows from here That you can't go to hell without passing through Atlanta first I'll find a dead end job and I'll try to write a dead end song Just thoughtless enough to make the radio And we'll drink wine like water As if we had a sorrow to drown If that don't work it's alright, baby We can just stay here We can just stay here 'Cause when you stepped in And the world stopped spinning I gotta let you know Just how I've become an artist At how things fall apart It's the only thing I know Won't you just stay here We can just stay here We can just lay here We can just lay here We can just stay here (Stay here) We can just stay here oh (Stay here) We can get away dear oh (Away dear) We can just lay here I remember I was singing about September When you walked across the boardwalk to that smoky bar

I peel my label into hundreds of shreds Keep my eye on the door Smoke my last cigarette Above bottles clanging and conversation My watch is ticking and taunting and asking How long you waiting on a chance she won't show And I don't know Suddenly I'm beginning to feel a little past over and a little naive And just as i surrender my seat and reach for the keys to my car There you are There she comes like a spotlight coming down the hall She shines from the middle I can't see nothing else at all My red dress lady in a black and white town Don't turn around Keep coming my way Don't turn around Im staying in and she's out there tonight Out on the town until nearly daylight I'm getting older and it's getting late Wonder if she would call if she knew I'm awake Everything is changing and my warm feeling is converting to burning I can just see her waiting for somebody other than me Suddenly I'm beginning to feel a little passed over and a little naive But just as i give up on sleep and reach for the keys to my car There you are She calls out like a church bell ringing through the streets Bringing hope to the hopeless and me to my feet My red dress lady in a black and white town Don't turn around Keep coming my way Don't turn around She's a beautiful song just too long to write and too perfect to know I'm a sad sad song, but I wrote every note There she comes like a spotlight coming down the hall She shines from the middle I can't see nothing else at all My red dress lady in a black and white town Don't turn around Keep coming my way Don't turn around