German Afternoons
  1. Lulu Walls

    One evening getting dark
    We first met at the park
    Just sitting by the fountain all alone
    I lifted up my hat
    And then began to chat
    She said she'd allow me to see her at her home
    Chorus:
    Such a star I've never seen
    She's as pretty as the queen
    She's as perfect as an angel from above
    If she'd only be my wife
    I'd live happy all me life
    With that aggravating beauty Lulu Walls.
    If she were only mine
    I'd build a house so fine
    And around it so many fences tall
    It would make me jealously
    To think that none but me
    Could gaze upon that beauty Lulu Walls.
    (Repeat Chorus)
    One evening getting late
    Well, I met her at the gate
    I asked her if she'd wed me in the fall
    But she only turned away
    And nothing would she say
    That aggravating beauty Lulu Walls.
    (Repeat Chorus)
    With that aggravating beauty Lulu Walls.
  2. Speed of the Sound of Loneliness

    You come home late and you come home early
    You come on big when you're feeling small
    You come home straight and you come home curly
    Sometimes you don't come home at all
    Chorus:
    So what in the world's come over you
    And what in heaven's name have you done
    You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness
    You're out there running just to be on the run
    Well I got a heart that burns with a fever
    And I got a worried and a jealous mind
    How can a love that'll last forever
    Get left so far behind
    (Repeat Chorus)
    It's a mighty mean and a dreadful sorrow
    It's crossed the evil line today
    Well, how can you ask about tomorrow
    We ain't got one word to say
    (Repeat Chorus:)
    Ending:
    You're out there running just to be on the run
    You're out there running just to be on the run
    You're out there running just to be on the run
  3. Out of Love

    Barley malts and does eat oats and little girls are lively
    And your liveliness has left me in a brew
    So I'm sitting here just drinking beer
    Cause there's nothing else to do.
    And when I'm out of love, I'm out of you.
    We were so happy, honey when we were together
    Why we should have won a ribbon colored blue
    But those Rocky Mountain waters came between us
    And when I'm out of love, I'm out of you.
    Chorus:
    So I'm living in the land of sky blue waters
    And I'm grabbing all the gusto up it's true
    Well, you only go around once in life they say
    And when I'm out of love, I'm out of you
    These teardrops that I'm crying are the champagne of bottled tears,
    And I must admit that I've shed one or two,
    But when good friends get together well they always tip a few
    And when I'm out of love, I'm out of you.
    (Repeat Chorus)
    So put me in a cool place for I'm the King of Beers
    Forty to forty-five degrees will do
    And if you must play that jukebox let it be low and now
    'Cause when I'm out of love, I'm out of you.
    (Repeat Chorus)
    Ending:
    So if you go the time, we got the tears
    And when I'm out of love, I'm out of you
  4. Sailin' Around

    Sailin' around, sailin' around, sailin' around,
    I've been out sailin' around again
    I've been sailin' around
    But I can't get back to you.
    Hangin' around, hangin' around, hangin' around
    I've been out hangin' around again
    I've been hangin' around
    But I can't get back to you.
    Chorus:
    So tell where you been so long (sailin' around)
    What have I done so wrong? (sailin' around)
    Well, I'm so glad I finally found you
    I can't wait to put my arms around you
    Sailin' around, but I can't get back to you
    Shoppin' around, shoppin' around, shoppin' around,
    I've been shoppin' around again
    I've been shoppin' around
    But I can't get back to you.
    (Repeat Chorus)
    Sailin' around, sailin' around, sailin' around,
    I've been sailin' around again
    I've been sailin' around but I can't get back to you.
    I've been sailin' around but I can't get back to you.
    I've been sailin' around but I can't get back to you.
  5. If She Were You

    Well, every time I try to love another
    I never know exactly what to do 
    I'd like to tell her just how much I want her
    And I could find the way if she were you
    Her eyes may shine for me and not another,
    Her lonely arms reach out to hold me too,
    She wants to take your place and be my lover
    And I could make her mine if she were you
    I never knew how much I cared about you
    Till your memory made me a lovesick fool 
    When she speaks to me I hear you sweet voice calling
    When I close my eyes your face comes into view 
    I remember how it hurt when I was falling
    And I could fall again if she were you
    I never knew how much I cared about you
    Till your memory made me a lovesick fool 
    She wants to take your place and be my lover
    And I could make her mine if she were you
    Yes, I could make her mine if she was you
  6. Linda Goes to Mars

    I just found out yesterday that Linda goes to Mars
    Every time I sit and look at pictures of used cars
    She'll turn on her radio and sit down in her chair
    And look at me across the room, as if I wasn't there
    Chorus:
    Oh My stars! My Linda's gone to Mars
    Well I wish she wouldn't leave me here alone
    Oh My stars! My Linda's gone to Mars
    Well, I wonder if she'd bring me something home.
    Something, somewhere, somehow took my Linda by the hand
    And secretly decoded our sacred wedding band
    For when the moon shines down up on our happy, humble home
    Her inner space gets tortured by some outer space unknown.
    (Repeat Chorus)

    Now I ain't seen no saucers 'cept the ones upon the shelf
    And if I ever seen one I'd keep it to myself
    For if there's life out there somewhere beyond this life on earth
    Then Linda must have gone out there and got her money's worth.
    (Repeat Chorus)
    Yeah, I wonder if she'd bring me something home.
  7. Let's Talk Dirty In Hawaiian

    Well, I packed my bags and bought myself a ticket
    For the land of the tall palm tree
    Aloha Old Milwaukee, Hello Waikiki
    I just stepped down from the airplane
    When I heard her say,
    "Waka waka nuka licka, waka waka nuka licka
    Would you like a lei? Eh?"
    Chorus:
    Let's talk dirty in Hawaiian
    Whisper in my ear
    Kicka pooka mok a wa wahini
    Are the words I long to hear
    Lay your coconut on my tiki
    What the hecka mooka mooka dear
    Let's talk dirty in Hawaiian
    Say the words I long to hear
    It's a ukulele Honolulu sunset
    Listen to the grass skirts sway
    Drinking rum from a pineapple
    Out on Honolulu Bay
    The steel guitars all playing
    While she's talking with her hands
    Gimme gimme oka doka make a wish and wanta polka
    Words I understand Hey!
    (Repeat Chorus)
    Well, I boughta lota junka with my moolah
    And sent it to the folks back home
    I never had the chance to dance the hula
    Well, I guess I should have known
    When you start talking to the sweet wahini
    Walking in the pale moonlight
    Ohka noka whatta setta knocka-rocka-sis-boom-boccas
    Hope I said it right Oh!
    (Repeat Chorus)
    Let's talk dirty in Hawaiian
    Say the words I long to hear
    Aloha
  8. I Just Want to Dance With You

  9. Love, Love, Love

    He stumbled through the alley with his long coat on
    Nothing but a bottle in his hand
    She sat in her apartment lonesome to the bone
    Wondering what had happened to her man
    Chorus:
    Love, love, love, love
    Nobody ever understands
    All the things that go,
    Between a woman and a man.
    When they'd walk down the sidewalk the street would shine
    With the kind of love no human heart can fake
    And they vowed to stay together till the end of time
    Like the couple that stands on top of the wedding cake
    (Repeat Chorus)
    If I should live to a ripe old age
    The only lesson I may ever learn
    Is to not stand so close to the flame of love
    Unless you are willing to get burned
    (Repeat Chorus)
    All the things that go,
    Between a woman and a man.
  10. Bad Boy

    I been a bad boy
    I been long gone
    I been out there
    I never phone home
    I never gave you not one little clue where I'd been
    I've been a bad boy again.
    I got a way of
    Fallin' in love
    With angels that don't shove
    You into thinkin' that you are committing a sin
    I've been a bad boy again.
    Chorus: x2
    I've been a bad boy again
    Now I've been a bad boy again
    And all the trouble that I'm in
    Makes me a bad boy again
    I must have walked 'round
    In a real fog
    I was your best friend
    Now I'm a real dog
    I never thought that now
    Would ever catch up with then
    I've been a bad boy again.
    I've been a bad boy
    I sung a wrong song
    I took a left turn
    I stayed too long
    As you were thinkin' that I wasn't
    Just like all other men
    I've been a bad boy again.
    (Repeat Chorus x2)
  11. They'll Never Take Her Love from Me

    If today the sun should set on all my hopes and cares
    There is still one smiling face the Gods would see
    But she'll walk along beside me up those golden stairs
    Oh, they'll never, ever take her love from me
    What a fool I was to go and break the trust she gave
    And watch her love turn into sympathy
    It's the one regret I'll carry with me to my grave
    Oh they'll never, never take her love from me
    I'm so thankful for each golden hour of happiness
    That we shared together in the use to be
    Someone else's arms may hold her now in fond caress
    But they'll never, never take her love from me
    Well, I though I'd make her happy if I'd step aside
    But I knew her love would never set me free
    And even on the morning she became another's bride
    I said they'll never, never take her love from me
    Ending:
    No, they'll never, never take her love from me
  12. Paradise

    When I was a child my family would travel
    Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
    And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
    So many times that my memories are worn.

    Chorus:
    And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
    Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
    Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
    Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

    Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
    To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill
    Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
    But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

    (Repeat Chorus)

    Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
    And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
    Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
    Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

    (Repeat Chorus)

    When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
    Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
    I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
    Just five miles away from wherever I am.