Judith

Judy Collins - Judith - Album (1975) 1.  The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress 2.  Angel Spread Your Wings 3.  Houses                                      tabbed by henatlbch 4.  The Lovin’ Of The Game 5.  Song For Duke                               tabbed by plaguerose333 6.  Send In The Clowns                  tabbed by Pencom 7.  Salt Of The Earth 8.  Brother Can You Spare A Dime 9.  City Of New Orleans 10. I’ll Be Seeing You 11. Pirate Ships 12. Born To The Breed ================================================================== Track 1 - The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress CAPO: 3rd Fret [Intro]      [Verse 1] See her how she flies Golden sails across the sky   Close enough to touch   But careful if you try Though she looks as warm as gold    The moon’s a harsh mistress    The moon can be so cold    [Verse 2] Once the sun did shine Lord it felt so fine   The moon a phantom rose   Through the mountains and the pines And then the darkness fell    And the moon’s a harsh mistress    It’s so hard to love her well [Verse 3] I fell out of her eyes I fell out of her heart   I fell down on my face   I tripped and  missed my star God I fell and fell alone    And the moon’s a harsh mistress    And the sky is made of stone The moon’s a harsh mistress    She’s hard to call your own ================================================================== Track 2 - Angel Spread Your Wings CAPO: 2nd Fret [Intro]              [Verse 1] Prisoners of the heart in search of love and peace    Hung in desperation longing for release    I’m just a traveller angel you’re my ride    Take me past the place I’ve passed the last time that I died [Chorus] Angel spread your wings I want to fly away with you    Take me in your arms I know you’re dying to Fly away forever   Fly away forever   Angel spread your wings           [Verse 2] Angel comes into my room it’s dark and so is she    Wants to know if she can take me soaring out to sea    Lying in her darkness like a child awaiting birth    Angel comes and takes me for everything I’m worth [Chorus] Angel spread your wings I want to fly away with you    Take me in your arms I know you’re dying to Fly away forever   Fly away forever   Angel spread your wings           [Outro] Fly away forever   Fly away forever   Fly away forever   Fly away forever   Angel spread your wings ================================================================== Track 3 - Houses Houses    Judy Collins You have many houses one for every season Mountains in your windows violets in your hand Through your English meadows your blue-eyed horses wander You’re in Colorado for the spring When the winter finds you you fly to where it’s summer Rooms that face the ocean moonlight on your bed Mermaids swift as dolphins paint the air with diamonds You are like a seagull as you said Why do you fly bright feathered sometimes in my dreams? The shadows of your wings fall over my face I can feel no air I can find no peace Brides in black ribbons witches in white Fly in through windows fly out through the night Why do I think I’m dying sometimes in my dreams I see myself a child running through the trees Searching for myself looking for my life Looking everywhere crawling on my knees I cannot see the leaves I cannot see the light Then I see you walking just beyond the forest Walking very quickly walking by yourself Your shoes are silver your coat is made of velvet Your eyes are shining your voice is sweet and clear "Come on" you say "Come with me I’m going to the castle" All the bells are ringing the weddings have begun But I can only stand here I cannot move to follow I’m burning in the shadows and freezing in the sun There are people with you living in your houses People from your childhood who remember how you were You were always flying nightingale of sorry Singing bird with rainbows on your wings ================================================================== Track 4 - The Lovin’ Of The Game [Intro]                [Verse 1] I watched the Feather River glide   Over shining golden sand Struck the silver ribbon wide   Held a million in my hand [Verse 2] But besides the looking for The finding’s always tame And there’s nothing drives a gambler   Like the lovin’ of the game [Verse 3] All my life I’ve searched around   Travelin’ hard from town to town But I never really found   Anything to tie me down [Verse 4] Still I would not trade my time For a solid diamond claim No I would not trade a fortune   For the lovin’ of the game [Instrumental]                [Verse 5] So long Darlin’ don’t you cry   I hope that things turn out for you All these good times goin’ by    Got to get ourselves a few [Verse 6] Still I would not trade my time For a solid diamond claim Oh the treasure’s not for taking   It’s the lovin’ of the game Oh the treasure’s not for taking   It’s the lovin’ of the game___ The lovin’ of the game ================================================================== Track 5 - Song For Duke I didn’t even know the man I didn’t know the man himself Even though his music filled my life As it has so many others I knew that he had died that week After fighting death a year or more But I had had a rule before That funerals were a waste of flowers But something said I had to go To be a witness to his gift of love A man who never once gave up on life Until death took him in its tracks The people stood around the church Ten thousand people there they say or more Black and white and rich and poor Together they were there to say farewell In New York City it had rained that day The streets were silver and the sky was gray In the church the music sailed and sang And seemed to fill the air with shining sun The man was a hero He played the music of our souls He knew that we all have in us A place where beauty always grows Outside in the streets again The people wandered through the falling rain They waved their hands and dried their tears And turned to go about their lives again But none of us will be the same If we hear the things his music says That loving is the gift of life And making music was his way of love The man was a hero He sang the music of our souls He knew that we all have in us A place where beauty always grows Always grows ================================================================== Track 6 - Send In The Clowns Capo III          Isn’t it rich?  Aren’t we a pair? Me here at last on the ground and you in mid-air Where are the clowns.     Isn’t it bliss? Don’t you approve? One who keeps tearing around and one who can’t move. But where are the clowns? Send in the clowns. Just when I stopped opening doors Finally knowing the one that I wanted was  yours; Making my entrance again with my usual flair Sure of my lines no one is there. Don’t you love farce?  My fault I fear; I thought that you’d want what I want - sorry my dear. But where are the clowns?  Quick send in the clowns. Don’t bother they’re here.          Isn’t it rich? Isn’t it queer Losing my timing this late in my career? But where are the clowns? There ought to be clowns Well maybe next year. ================================================================== Track 7 - Salt Of The Earth [Intro]              [Verse 1] Let’s drink to the hard working people Let’s drink to the lowly of birth Raise your glass to the good and the evil Let’s drink to the salt of the earth [Verse 2] Say a prayer for the common foot-soldier Spare a thought for his back breaking work Say a prayer for his wife and his children Who tend the fires and who still till the earth [Chorus] When I see this crowd of faceless A swirling mass of black and grey and white They look so real to me But they look so much in pain___ [Verse 3] Raise your glass to the hard working people Let’s drink to the uncounted dead Let’s think of the wavering millions Who need leaders but get gamblers instead [Verse 4] Spare a thought for the stay at-home voter His empty eyes gaze at strange beauty shows In a parading of grey suited grafters A choice of cancer or polio [Chorus] When I see this crowd of faceless A swirling mass of grey and black and white They look so real to me But they look so much in pain___ [Verse 5] Let’s drink to the hard working people Let’s think of the lowly of birth Spare a thought for the rag-tagged people Let’s drink to the salt of the earth [Verse 6] Let’s drink to the hard working people Let’s think of the lowly of birth Spare a thought for the rag-tagged people Let’s drink to the salt of the earth ================================================================== Track 8 - Brother Can You Spare A Dime [Intro] [Verse 1] They used to tell me I was building a dream And so I followed the mob When there was earth to plough or guns to bear I was always there right on the job [Verse 2] They used to tell me I was building a dream With peace and glory ahead Why should I be standing in line Just waiting for bread?         [Verse 3] Once I built a railroad made it run Made it race against time   Once I build a railroad now it’s done Bdim7          E7      Am Buddy can you spare a dime? [Verse 4] Once I built a tower to the sun Built of brick and mortar and lime Once I built a tower now it’s done Bdim7          E7      Am Buddy can you spare a dime? [Bridge] Once in khaki suits gee we looked swell Full of that Yankee Doodle de-dum Half a million boots went slogging through Hell And I was the kid with the drum   [Verse 5] Say don’t you remember they called me Al? It was Al all the time   Say don’t you remember? I’m your pal Bdim7         E7      Am Buddy can you spare a dime? ================================================================== Track 9 - City Of New Orleans CAPO: 4th Fret [Intro] [Verse 1] Riding on the City of New Orleans Illinois Central Monday morning rail Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail On the south bound odyssey the train pulls out of Kenkakee Rolls along past houses farms and fields Passing trains that have no name freight yards of old black men And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles [Chorus] Good morning America how are you? Say don’t you know me I’m your native son   I’m the train they call the City of New Orleans I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done [Verse 2] Playing cards with the old men in the club car Penny a point ain’t no one keeping score Pass the paper bag but hold the bottle And feel the wheels rumbling beneath the floor And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers Ride their father’s magic carpets made of steel Mother with their babes asleep rocking to the gentle beat The rhythm of the rails is all they feel [Chorus] Good morning America how are you? Say don’t you know me I’m your native son   I’m the train they call the City of New Orleans I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done [Verse 3] Night time on the City of New Orleans Changing cars in Memphis Tennessee Half way home and we’ll be there by morning Through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea And all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream The steel rail still ain’t heard the news The conductor sings his songs again the passengers will please refrain This train got the disappearing railroad blues [Chorus] Good night America how are you? Say don’t you know me I’m your native son   I’m the train they call the City of New Orleans I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done I’ll be gone a million miles when the race is run I’ll be gone_____ ================================================================== Track 10 - I’ll Be Seeing You CAPO: 3rd Fret [Intro]          [Verse 1] I’ll be seeing you in all the old familiar places That this heart of mine embraces All day through In that small café The park across the way The children’s carousel The chestnut trees the wishing well [Verse 2] I’ll be seeing you in every lovely summer’s day In everything that’s light and gay I’ll always think of you that way I’ll find you in the morning sun And when the night is new I’ll be looking at the moon But I’ll be seeing you [Instrumental] [Outro] I’ll find you in the morning sun and when the night is new I’ll be looking at the moon but I’ll be seeing you ================================================================== Track 11 - Pirate Ships CAPO: 1st Fret [Intro]     [Verse 1] Far away far away child   Turn your eyes far away child   Mama will sleep right down beside you tonight Mama will sleep tonight   [Verse 2] Pirate ships pirate ships child   Merry and bold sparkling and rich child   Coming to dock right at your feet tonight Coming to dock tonight   [Verse 3] In the stars in the stars child   See the people in the stars child   They will fly right through your window tonight Into your window tonight   [Outro] Mama will sleep right down beside you tonight Mama will sleep tonight far away ================================================================== Track 12 - Born To The Breed CAPO: 1st Fret [Intro]                [Verse 1] I was only nineteen   The morning you were born With your hair fine and red And your eyes like my own   [Verse 2] Barely a woman With only a song   I sang to make you smile And held you all night long   [Verse 3] Home through the streets   With you in my arms Cold winter mornings In a Colorado town   [Verse 4] I’ve seen you stumble You’ve watched me fall   You know I’ve got nothing You know we’ve got it all   [Verse 5] Trucks roll by and the rain coming down Does that old parka keep you dry? Sixteen years old out on the road Trying to get to the sky   [Verse 6] Back in September You called me on the phone   "Ma you know I love you But I gotta be own my own"   [Verse 7] "Comes a time in a boy’s life   When he’s got to be a man Please don’t try to find me Please try to understand"   [Verse 8] Now he’s playing guitar In a rock and roll band   Looking like a baby Talking like a man   [Verse 9] The life of a guitar man   Is a hard life to live What can I tell you You were born to the breed   [Verse 10] Rain comes down the trucks rolling by Is that old poncho gonna keep you dry?   Sixteen years old January child Trying to get to the sky   [Verse 11] I’ve watched you growing   Through all these years You’ve seen me stumble I’ve watched your tears   [Verse 12] Sometimes there was roses Sometimes there was thorns   But I know you’re gonna make it As sure as you were born   [Verse 13] And I hope from what you wanted   You get what you need I know you’re gonna make it You were born to the breed   [Outro] Sixteen years old January child Trying to get to the sky______     ==================================================================