Old Gospel Melody Lyrics

Ophelia was a bride of God A novice Carmelite, In sister cells, the cloister bells, Tolled on her wedding night Ophelia was the rebel girl, A blue-stockinged suffragette Who remedi...Read Full Lyrics

I had a silver penny And an apricot tree And I said to the sailor On the white quay Sailor O sailor Will you bring me If I give you my penny And my apricot tree 'A fez ...Read Full Lyrics

A bomb went off this morning raining bodies on TV They are blaming the insurgents; they are blocking off the streets And the smoke is rising slowly from the barrel of a gun The ...Read Full Lyrics

Well, I lived in a town Way down south By the name of Owensboro And I worked in a mill With the rest of the "trash" As we're often called As you know Well, we rise up early In the...Read Full Lyrics

Do I have to put the law on you baby for all the wicked things you do? Am I gonna have to put the law on you baby? That was not what I wanted to do. Do I have to put the law on yo...Read Full Lyrics

Young and strong Hollywood son In the early morning light This star fell down On Sunset Boulevard Young and strong beautiful one We embraced so close Is gone Was torn away Let th...Read Full Lyrics

Saddle up the horses and wear your Sunday best. Sing your Sacred Harp, you be holier than the rest. Fill up the room with a grand and thunderous song Let it rattle out the windows,...Read Full Lyrics

A woman of beauty A woman of pain In France or Jakarta Her shadow's the same You go home with Sally Ann You go home with Sally Ann You go home A woman of kindness With bracelets o...Read Full Lyrics

Go west Paradise is there You'll have all that you can eat Of milk and honey over there You'll be the brightest star The world has ever seen Sun-baked slender heroine Of film and ...Read Full Lyrics

Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leaves, lake the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! As the heart grows older It will c...Read Full Lyrics