Jangling Jack Lyrics

Sapped and stupidI lie upon the stones and I swoonThe darling little dandelions have done their thingAnd they changed from suns into moonsThe dragons roam the shopping mallsI hear ...Read Full Lyrics

I wake up and it's half past fourMy baby, she turns her face to the wallI ain't gonna cry, but it ain't that funny no moreI pulled on a blanket made of starsI wrap up my darling al...Read Full Lyrics

Who took your measurementsFrom your toes to the top of your headYeah, you knowWho bought you clothes and new shoesAnd wrote you a book you never readYeah, you knowWho was it, yeah ...Read Full Lyrics

All through the night we drove and the wind caught her hairAnd we parked on the beach in the cool evening airWell, sometimes it's better not to say anything at allYour body...Read Full Lyrics

The bright horses have broken free from the fieldsThey are horses of love, their manes full of fireThey are parting the cities, those bright burning horsesAnd everyone is h...Read Full Lyrics

They found Mary Bellows cuffed to the bedWith a rag in her mouth and a bullet in her headOh poor Mary BellowsShe'd grown up hungry, she'd grown up poorShe left her home in Arkansas...Read Full Lyrics

[Chorus:]They call me The Wild Rose But my name was Elisa Day Why they call me it I do not know For my name was Elisa Day From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one As she...Read Full Lyrics

They call me The Wild RoseBut my name was Elisa DayWhy they call me it I do not knowFor my name was Elisa DayFrom the first day I saw her I knew she was the oneShe stared in my eye...Read Full Lyrics

Go son, go down to the waterAnd see the women weeping thereThen go up into the mountainsThe men, they are all weeping too Father, why are all the women weeping?They are all weeping...Read Full Lyrics

O my o my, what a wretched lifeI was born on the day that my poor mama diedI was cut from her belly with a Stanley knifeMy daddy did a jig with the drunk midwifeWho's that yonder a...Read Full Lyrics