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Ivanhoe Road Music 2005
All songs GD Paul 2004, Ivanhoe Road Music (ASCAP) except "Fair and Tender Ladies," Trad, arr. Paul
GD Paul 2004, Ivanhoe Road Music (ASCAP)
Standard tuning
I like the way you walk
You're so long and so tall
And when you walked my way
Felt like a girl in school
You got me all hot and bothered now
'Cause baby, you're so cool
I like the way you talk
Sweet and low and soft
And when you spoke my name
Felt like I was your jewel
You got me all hot and hungry now
'Cause baby, you're so cool
I like the way you kiss
Nobody ever kissed me like this
And when you pull me close
Feel like I could lose control
You got me all hot and sweaty now
'Cause baby, you're so cool
I like the way you touch
The way your fingers know so much
And when we're all alone
Oh, the things you make me want to do
You got me so hot now
'Cause baby, you're so cool
GD Paul 2004, Ivanhoe Road Music (ASCAP)
DADGAD
I'm so restless
I need your touch to calm me down
I'm so restless
Need your touch to calm me down
As restless as I been feelin'
Need you to calm me all night long
I've been sleepless, baby
Just can't seem to get my rest
I've been sleepless, baby
Just can't seem to get my rest
I've been laying here all night thinking
About all the things that you do best
Didn't mean to wake you
Gettin' up and pacin' the floor
But now that I've got your attention
What are we waiting for
I'm so restless, oh, baby, come on, come on
I need your sweet love to soothe me
Before I'm way past gone
I'm still restless, baby
Can't get enough of you
I'm still restless, baby
Can't get enough of you
You know you're the stuff that dreams are made of
And I want this dream to come true
Gayla Paul and Curtis Paul 2002, Ivanhoe Road Music (ASCAP)
Standard tuning
Woke up this morning, where were you?
Out doin' things that you don't think I know that you do
Out drinkin' cold beer while I lay here and lose my cool
It could be hours, it could be days
I've given you plenty of chances to change your ways
And I'm tired of ya treatin' me like a fool
Don't know if you're on a northbound, eastbound, southbound or westbound train
Don't know if you're gonna stay away or if you're gonna try to come back home again
Come on, be honest, baby tell me why
You take what you want from me and tell me good-bye
I don't know if I should leave the light on for you tonight
Don't know if you are hung down, brung down, strung out or just over used
All I know is I'm gettin' mighty tired of picking up messes in my life that got made by you
So now, this is the way it's gonna be
I'm gonna go on by myself, you're gonna have to get along without me
You're gonna pay the price for treating me like you do
I've scrubbed pots and pans and I've cleaned stools
I held down two jobs to put your ass through school
I robbed Peter to pay Paul, well honey, Peter's feelin' a little overdue
So I roll over and pick up the phone
Call up the locksmith and invite him home
I'm gonna be cookin' up some supper tonight for me and somebody new
Don't know if you're on a jet-liner, freight-liner, Greyhound or AmTrak train
Don't know if you're gonna turn around or if you're just gonna keep on walkin' away
You hurt me bad, you done me wrong, don't deny it's true
You made life a misery for me, so I'm gonna make it hell for you
I don't think I wanna leave the light on for you
I don't think I'm gonna leave the light on for you
I'll be damned if I'll leave the light on for you tonight
GD Paul 2004, Ivanhoe Road Music (ASCAP)
Standard tuning
I got to move
On
I got to roll
Now
You don't know how
Hard
It is for me
To stick around
You gotta get up pretty early, honey
To keep up with where I'm bound
I got to drive
Fast
I got to go
Far
No matter east
Or west
As long as I'm in
My car
You gotta wake up really early, honey
To keep up with me and my guitar
I got to leave
Town
Before the break
Of dawn
It's nothin' personal
But you'll wake up and I'll
Be gone
You gotta get up mighty early, honey
If you want to come along
GD Paul 2004, Ivanhoe Road Music (ASCAP)
Standard tuning
I want somebody who won't try to tie me down
I want somebody with his own thing going on
I want a friend and a lover, not a ball and chain
That's what I have to give you, I hope that you can do the same
REFRAIN
So kiss me like crazy
And I'll give you everything you want
Make me feel like a shining star
And I'll make you feel like the rising sun
It's a clear night, and it just feels right
Oh tonight I'll be your only one
No expectations, no complicated ties
I'll be your oasis from the darkening skies
You don't have to be my hero, don't need no white knight
You can just make me feel all over what you're making me feel tonight
REFRAIN
Like all good things there will come a day
When this is over and we'll go our own way
But tonight we're together, I'm so glad you came along
Until the morning sun breaks through we got a good thing going on
REFRAIN
GD Paul 2004, Ivanhoe Road Music (ASCAP)
DADGBD
Just below the surface, something goin' on
A crackling in between us, a nice slow burn
Though we both keep our distance, unspoken, understood
Let me wrap my words around you like I'd
Wrap myself if I could
You're thunder in the distance, you're an itch that I can't scratch
You're a diamond buried deep, you're the sulfur on a match
And I want you, baby, like a true lover should
Gonna wrap my words around you like I'd
Wrap myself if I could
All we ever dare is one brief fleeting touch
But the volume of your silence tells me so much
But don't tell anybody, this secret is too damn good
Gonna wrap my words around you like I'd
Wrap myself if I could
Trad, arr. Paul
Standard tuning
Come all you fair and tender ladies
Take warning how you court your men
They're like the stars of a summer evening
They first appear and then they're gone again
They'll tell to you some lovely story
They'll make you think they love you true
But then they'll go and court another
That's the love they have for you
I wish I was a little sparrow
And I had wings to fly so high
I'd fly away to my false true lover
And when he's talkin' I'd be nigh
Bur I am not a little sparrow
And neither have I wings to fly
So I'll just stay here in grief and sorrow
To weep and pass my troubles by
If I'd have known before I courted
I probably would have courted none
I'd have wrapped my heart in a box of golden
Sealed it up with a silver pin
So come all you fair and tender ladies
Take warning how you court your men
They're like the stars of a summer evening
They first appear and then they're gone again
GD Paul 1994, Ivanhoe Road Music (ASCAP)
DADGAD
REFRAIN
Dangerous water
Flooding all around my home
It's coming down like a fury
Dangerous water
I call you storm cloud, 'cause your eyes
Are the color of the stormy skies
You called up a storm of desire
Your lightning set my heart on fire
And if it rains any harder, it just might break my heart
Thunder roars and lightning flashes, and there's nothing much that you can do
But get ready for some
REFRAIN
After midnight when I sleep
I feel the power of your body touching me
I wish I could drown in your eyes
Ride their current straight into paradise
And if that river rises much higher
It just might break my heart
Learn to tumble with the current is all that you can do
Get ready for some
REFRAIN
I call you storm cloud, 'cause your eyes
Are the color of the stormy skies
You called up a storm of desire
Your lightning set my heart on fire
Flood waters rage all around me
It's about to break my heart
Try to save al that I can, baby, there's nothin' else that I can do
But get ready for some
REFRAIN
Gayla Paul and Curtis Paul 2004, Ivanhoe Road Music (ASCAP)
Standard tuning
I was hoping I'd hear from you tonight
I was hoping you'd slip away tonight
I miss your touch in the moments when the world falls away
And I need you so much
Like silk drifts down I slip into blue
In the twilight when cool passion burns
In the twilight when souls begin to yearn
I catch your scent on the shirt I wrap around to keep you close
And I breathe you in
As the night drifts in I slip into blue
In the morning I listen for your heart
In the morning I remember we're apart
I wish you were here and I know this restless feeling will not end
Till I feel you near
As the silk slips away I slip into blue
Gayla Paul and Curtis Paul 1999, Ivanhoe Road Music (ASCAP)
Standard tuning
Nana's got some cookies, sure do taste fine
Nana's got some cookies, sweeter than wine
Nana's deep dark chocolate, lord, gonna blow your mind
Nana's got some cookies drive a strong man to his knees
Nana's got some cookies gonna fulfill all your deepest needs
Everybody talkin' about it, that Nana really knows how to please
People come from miles around, people wanna know
What is it about those cookies that gives those boys a glow?
People wanna know
For some of Nana's cookies you'd walk a hundred miles through the snow
Nana's pretty secretive about her special recipe
She'll never give it away, no, no, but she gave it to me
So I'm heatin' up my oven for you honey, gonna cook you up a real feast
If you're ever in Knoxville, just drop by
Nana be sure and cook you up a steamy hot chicken pot pie
GD Paul 2004, Ivanhoe Road Music (ASCAP)
Standard tuning, Capo 3
REFRAIN
You may see me walkin' along
And you might think that I done you wrong
Well, I never promised anything more
Now you see me walkin' out your door
I told you once, let me tell you again
This is the real thing, honey, ain't gonna pretend
I just thought that we could have a little fun, but now that's through
And that's all I wanted from you
REFRAIN
I told you once, let me jog your memory
We can have this thing tonight, honey, but you can't have me
And I'm sorry if that wrecks your grand romantic fantasy
But it's gettin' late, I got to leave
And you may see me walkin' away
You might think that you have been played
Well, maybe I'll come back, maybe I won't
Now you see me, now you don't
GD Paul 2004, Ivanhoe Road Music (ASCAP)
Standard Tuning
Every day now
I keep waiting for you to come around
Just look at my point of view
But if you don't get the picture now I'm gonna stop waiting on you
Every word now
You keep telling me you're so special somehow
But you don't offer a bit of proof
And if I can't handle more of your lies how the hell can I handle the truth
Every where now
I go out and you are all over town
Tellin' lies and blowin' smoke
And I've listened to you long enough to know that it's all a joke
Every thing now
Will be better when you're not around
Well, what do you want me to say?
And then I can start livin' all of my life, every every day
GD Paul 1999, Ivanhoe Road Music (ASCAP)
Standard tuning
Coming home to you at the end of a long day
Of just dealing with things that don't matter, just get in my way
Been thinking about you all day long and I just can't wait to get back home
Your lips are soft and warm, one touch charges every nerve
Your fingers know all my secrets, your hands know every curve
Hold me close, hold me tight, all I wanna do is make love with you tonight
You breathe out as I breathe in
Locked in this communion together skin to skin
Savoring every moment, craving every taste, oh, coming home to you at the end of the day
Gayla Paul and Curtis Paul 2004, Ivanhoe Road Music (ASCAP)
Standard tuning
Saved a man in Memphis
On my way back home
My baby's waitin' for me
He told me on the phone
REFRAIN
Yes I saved a man in Memphis
'Cause I didn't want to see him die
And my baby never left me
So I really got no reason to cry
I can afford a first class ticket
So I don't even need to drive
Got a new Toyota in the driveway
I guess I get by
REFRAIN
Bridge:
Ain't never been hungry, I always get fed
Ain't never been lonely, always sleep in a nice, warm bed
Ain't got no drug problem, don't smoke or chew
I'm just a middle class white girl, tryin' to sing the blues
Went to a private college
Got a good day gig
Made it through the dot-com crisis
Didn't lose one red cent
REFRAIN
GD Paul 2004, Ivanhoe Road Music (ASCAP)
Standard tuning, Capo 5
Saw the sunrise from the driver's seat
Thinkin' about you, baby, wonderin' when I'm gonna see
Your leaf-green eyes lookin' down at me
From only a breath away
It's a good road, straight and clear
Crank up the radio, baby, I can't help but hear
The sound of your sweet voice when you were
Only a breath away
Oh my love, you are warm and it's so cold out here all alone
Oh my love, I can hear you softly calling me home
Calling me home
Saw the sunset at the show
Thinkin' about you, baby, how you slide down low
And my knees get weak just like you are
Only a breath away
Oh my love, you are light and it's so dark out here, all alone
Oh my love, I can feel you gently pulling me close
Pulling me close
Watched the stars come out to shine
Thinkin' about you, baby, holding your body close to mine
When will I see you shine for me
Only a breath away?
When will I see you shine for me
From only a breath away?
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