Among the headstones you played as boys
Crypts and tombs like a roomful of toys
Just up the river from the smoke and the noise
Gethsemane
And there's war-whoops and secret signs in...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
Me mammy told me, Isabel,
Now don't stay out too late
One day they'll throw you out of school
So get yourself a steady date
But Georgie meets me every night
We go out and we have a...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
Did you call my name? Did you call my name in the night?
In the whispers and sighs, in the whispers and sighs of the night
Ah ghosts in the wind, eh ghosts in the wind
Now this old...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
Will there be any bartenders up there in Heaven?
Will the pubs never close, will the glass never drain
No more D. T. 's and no shakes
And no horrors
Very next morning you feel righ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
I took my darling down
I took my darling down
To that big grey house down the lane
And then the doctor said
He said it's in her head
She's never going to be right again
I kissed my...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
(Richard Thompson)
Carrie ran a murderous crew
Dedicated through and through
And the chance to prove
They never squandered
And they liked to kill so clean
Save the innocent, kill ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
Hey, man! Hey, man!
If there's a drop of sake left in last night's little bottle
Won't you give me some?
Hey, boy! Hey, boy!
You think I'm satisfied with a little bottle?
Don't say...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
Tropical night, Malaria moon
Dying stars of the silver screen
She danced that famous Gypsy dance
With a hole in her tambourine
I was young enough and dumb enough
I swallowed down ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
He said, Dear, I'm leaving, right there in the hallway
As the party roared on all around
And her head wouldn't turn, O she couldn't look at him
In a whirlpool she quietly drowned
A...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
The Hand of Kindness
Lyrics + music by Richard Thompson
Weel I wove the rope
And I picked the spot
Well I stuck out my neck
And I tightened the knot
O stranger, stranger
It don't d...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson