Bathsheba smiles
She smiles and veins turn to ice
She smiles and heads bow down
She works the room
Air-kisses every victim twice
She spreads her joy around
Do you close your eyes ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
I'm beating my retreat
Back home to you
I'm beating my retreat
Back home to you
I'm burning all my bridges
I'm burning all my bridges
I'm burning all my bridges
I'm running back ho...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
All of my life I feed the big chimney
Coke and ore, I pour it in
Food for the hungry mouth of the monster
Got to keep the production rolling
Black ore, brown ore and Santander
Pou...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
As A cam in by Huntly Toun
Ae mornin for tae fee
A fell in wi Bogie o Cairnie
An wi him A did agree
For tae caa his twa best horses
Or cairt or harrow or plou
Or dae onything abou...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
There's riders in this county
They're taking heads for bounty
Wake up Corinne, they come to ride us down
Sweetness we have tasted
The time to move is wasted
They're riding like a h...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
Well I bought me a horse with a broken leg
They said that she never could win
Only fit for a bullet, they said
She'll be coming out of a tin
So I took her home, I fed her on hay
I...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
You called for me so here I am
Not a boy and not a man
Man enough to know the odds are long
They dress you up and keep you clean
Like courtiers around a queen
Show you good fr...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
I got sinister things waiting for you in my rattle bag
Egyptian rings, and the dust of kings, and the tooth of a hag
The bones of Keats, the tongues of cheats, and a mad dog's eye
...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
I was under the Calvary Cross
The pale-faced lady she said to me
I've watched you with my one green eye.
And I'll hurt you 'till you need me.
You scuff your heels and you spit on y...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
I started to cry, they put gin in my cup
I started to crawl and they swaddled me up
I got up and run, they said, easy son
Play up, play the game
They told me to think and forget w...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson