The Allman Brothers Band Album

Known you since you've been born
Raisin' hell even as a child
Nothing's changed since that day
You're still out running wild
Hellhound on your trail
Gettin' closer with every passing mile

Hey now baby,
Don't you think it's high time
To change your life's direction
Get off the firing line

Well your luck just ain't been running
Lord, very smooth these days
I think it's finally come down
You're gonna have to mend your ways
With your head up in the clouds
You cannot see through the haze

Hey now sweet baby,
Don't you think it's high time
To change your life's direction
Get off the firing line

Step outside, take a look aroud
Do you see anyone who cares?
Spent your whole life steppin' on your friends
Still you ain't nowhere

Search for a new direction
But the past is all you'll find
You can count up all your mistakes
Blame it on your criminal mind
When you lay down with snakes
You come up poisoned every time

Hey now baby,
Don't you think it's high time
To change your life's direction
Get off the firing line
Get off the firing line
Get off the firing line

You're the life of the party, everybody's host
Still you need somewhere you can hide
All your good time friends
And your farewell to has-beens
Lord knows, just along for the ride

You think you're a survivor
But boy, you better think twice
No one rides for nothin'
So, step up and pay the price

It's the high cost of low livin'
Ain't it high time, you turn yourself around?
Yeah, the high cost of low livin'
Is bound to put you six feet in the ground

So many here who love you
But still, you just can't tell
The real ones and those who drop your name

All the while behind your back
They lift the flesh right from your bones
You should know by now, we're all fair game

You've been chasing each dream with whiskey
From here to Tokyo
Usin' up all your real friends
Places left to go

It's the high cost of low livin'
Ain't it high time, you turn yourself around?
Yeah, the high cost of low livin'
Is bound to put you six feet in the ground

Don't look behind you
Ahh, don't look back
Don't try to find reason in the past
Past is gone, gone at last

It's high cost of low livin'
It's high time you turn yourself around
Well, the high cost of low livin'
Is bound to put you six feet in the ground

Rain falls upon a sleepy southern town
The midnight moon burning brightly
Memories rush in like a river forlorn
As you lay sleeping without me
Highway song keeps me rolling on
Still I long for you

Desdemona, I will be your only one
Oh yeah

I make my living calling out my pain
Trying to make it through another day
Arms reach for me on the wind I can feel it
They're a thousand miles away
Yours eyes remind me of everything beautiful and blue
and I won't feel myself till I'm with you

Desdemona, I will be your only one
Oh yeah

So hold a candle till the darkness fades
Nigh time sleeps but not for long
My heart is pounding like the ocean my soul's empty as the sky
But I know someday I'll be coming home
Time goes by in the twinkling of an eye
Still I pine for you

Desdemona, I will be your only one
Oh yeah

I just wanna be your only one
I just wanna be your only one
Your only one

Across the river a good woman cried
All because a foolish man lied.
She gave up everything, everything that money could buy
But the man told so many lies, there's another man over there
That woman across the river, sweet woman across the river - she was mine

Word got around that he had jilted her
Men came running from near and far
Should've never been so foolish - guess I'll never
But the man that's got her now, he's a lucky so-and-so
That woman across the river, sweet woman across the river - she was mine.

I remember the other day, about a week ago
She said "I don't even want to talk to you 'cause I don't love you anymore."
That woman across the river, sweet woman across the river - she was mine.

Across the river a good woman cried
All because a foolish man lied
She gave up everything, tried to keep him satisfied
But the man told so many lies, there's another man over there
That woman across the river,
That woman across the river,
That woman across the river, sweet woman across the river - she was mine.

OLD BEFORE MY TIME


There is a long hard Road follows for behind me,
Its so cold I'm about to die,
Chasing a dream around the world
Its got me feeling down
Though it use to make me high
Looking for answers searching for the truth,
In an ocean of lies.
trying to find a reason to make the hole thing right,
will make you old before your time
When I was younger,
I thought I ruled the world ,
It was an oyster at my feet,
Dancing to my own drum,
fishing out the pearl
wish I would have been much more discreet
I've lived a lifetime,
acting out apart,
Its been a long uphill climb,
now all the things that use to mean so much to me
Has got me old before my time,
Chorus:
Wondering aimlessly,wondering down,
would it ever be much different now,
Remind me of the past,
I slip into a dream,
funny things ain't never what they seem,
Solo:
Living like children,
never doing what we are told ,
Would not hessitateto take to take a chance,
That Road behind me now was paved with fool's gold,
Its almost time for the victory dance,
No more feeling guilty,
for things I never did,
feeling nothing for my crime ,
Living like a gypsy ,
dreaming like a kid,
it makes me old before my time…

There is a long hard Road, it lies so far behind me…

Woke up early this morning, something robbed me of my sleep
Reached for you but all I felt was a cold and empty sheet
Three nights on the road babe and I don't know where you been
Say you're working late could it be you got another man

Somebody said they saw you in a little club downtown
Your arms around a stranger, y'all was really goin' to town
You say they're just jealous, that you'll always be mine
But nigh time has a thousand eyes, could they all be blind?

Or am I a fool, am I a fool?
Cause this confusion is killing me
They all say that you're doing me wrong
But our love is much too strong
Somebody tell me, somebody tell me
Who to Believe?

Baby I really need you, I love you like a child
But I won't have no cheatin' woman tellin' lies and runnin' wild
I really want to believe you when you say that you'd be true
But everywhere I look, seems like the finger points to you

Or am I a fool, am I a fool?
Cause this confusion is killing me
They all say that you're doing me bad
But you're the best thing I've ever had
Somebody tell me, somebody tell me
Who to Believe?

Or am I a fool, am I a fool?
Cause this confusion is killing me
They all say that you're doing me wrong
But our love is much too strong
Somebody tell me, somebody tell me
Who to Believe?

Or am I a fool, am I a fool?
Cause this confusion is killing me
They all say that you're doing me bad
But you're the best thing I've ever had
Somebody tell me, somebody tell me
Who to Believe?

Fatal beauty, the chokin' kind
Dangerous feeling in this heart of mine
How can you love me
And treat me so unkind
You got me floppin' like a fish in a pan
Ain't no way to treat your man

Maydell
Baby won't you please love me
Maydell, you sure put the squeeze on me
I don't know why I love you,
You put me through hell
I can't break your spell, Maydell

Fire spreads quick through the neighborhood
Talk is cheap if the story's good
Nobody said you did, but everybody said that you would
You got me feelin' like a dog, chasin' his tail
I'll never catch you - you play the game too well

Maydell
Baby won't you please love me
Maydell, you sure put the squeeze on me
I don't know why I love you,
You put me through hell
I can't break your spell, Maydell

Every time I try to walk away,
Just walk away
You bat them eyes, beg me to stay,
Honey won't you stay
Ruby red lips, callin' my name
Forget about the sorrow and the shame
Maydell

Every time I try to walk away,
Just walk away
You bat them eyes, beg me to stay,
Honey won't you stay
Ruby red lips, callin' my name
Forget about the sorrow and the shame
Maydell

Maydell
Baby won't you please love me
Maydell, you sure put the squeeze on me
I don't know why I love you,
You put me through hell
I can't break your spell, Maydell

"My gaurdian angel wears a hard hat,"
Said the boy with the microphone
"Else, I wouldn't be standing here today
Ever since I was a young a boy
I couldn't leave well enough alone
Always trouble standing in my way

Up, down, anywhere but in the middle
Off the wagon, under the wheel again
All or nothing - never could do just alittle
Never could leave it alone

Got to ride that rocking horse

Hard living be the death of me
Lead me to an early grave
To die in the saddle must be my destiny
But to ride this rocking horse I must be crazed

Good clean fun is just my imagination
Down and dirty that's the way the game is played
This hard life has caused me aggravation
Never could leave it alone

Got to ride that rocking horse

Can't leave it alone
Got to ride that rocking horse

There've been so many girls that I've known
I've made so many cry and still I wonder why
Here comes the little girl, I see her walking down the street
She's all by herself I try and knock her off her feet
But, she'll never break, never break
Never break, never break this heart of stone
Oh, no, no, this heart of stone

What's different about her? I don't really know
No matter how I try, I just can't make her cry

'Cause she'll never break, never break
Never break, never break this heart of stone
Oh, no, no, no, this heart of stone

Don't keep on looking that same old way
If you try acting sad, you'll only make me glad

Better listen little girl, you go on walkin g down the street
I ain't got no love, I ain't the kind to meet

'Cause you'll never break, never break
Never break, never break, this heart of stone

Oh, no, no, you'll never break this heart of stone darlin'
No, no, this heart of stone you'll never break it darlin'
You won't break this heart of stone
Oh, no, no, no, you better go, you better go home
'Cause you'll, you'll never break this heart of stone
You better, you better

[No lyrics]

You know hard time is just an old friend, just an old friend to me
I say hard time is just an old friend, just an old friend to me
Tell me now, old friend, when you gonna let me be?

Can't you feel a cold wind howlin' down, blowin' my song
Can't you feel a cold wind howlin' down, blowin' my song
Well, I ain't an old man, but you know my time ain't long

Gonna be a hard rain - you can hear it in the distance, sounds so near
Gonna be a hard rain - you can hear it in the distance, sounds so near
People, when the rain comes, it's gonna wash us all away from here

Mean old woman, people won't you tell me where can she be
Mean old woman, people won't you tell me where can she be
She's the only woman that ever meant a damn to me

You know hard time is just an old friend, just an old friend to me
I say hard time is just an old friend, just an old friend to me
Tell me now, old friend, when you gonna let me be?
Tell me now, old friend, when you gonna let me be?
Tell me now, old friend, when you gonna let this poor man be?