Tytuł: Calamity John

• Wykonawca: Dar Williams
• Wyświetleń: 246

Come lovers, come loners, remember yourselves
   As lusty tempestuous fools
   When your dream was to conquer an ocean
   From your small secretarial pools
  
   When you stood at the gulf of unknowing
   When you saw the great tundra of time
   And you cried for the winds to come blowing
  
   And you called a monsoon from the tides of the moon
   'Cause the roads were all dusty and dry
  
   Come lame dancing lonely tonight
   When what should appear in the distance
   Blown hither and yon it's Calamity John
   And hes coming to sweep you away---Aye I Aye Ayy
  
   He'll tear through the homefront, he'll lift you up laughing
   He'll blow every signpost away
   As the weather report says high drama
   With a five percent chance that he'll stay
   Now the floor starts to rock and the roof floats
   And your friends say he's bad for your health
   And they've warmed you about him on talk shows
  
   So you told him to pack, hit the road, don't come back
   And he says hey "Don't flatter yourself" ....and you say.....
  
   I am closing my door to the storm
   I am saving myself from its freedom
   I have put the chain on, oh calamity john
   I don't want you to dance me away---Aye I Aye Ayy
  
   So its seven months later you've bolted your hair back
   You're almost immune to the moon
   And at parties you stay in the kitchen
   Common sense with a big wooden spoon
   All at once you can feel the storm coming
   As you burst out into the old refrain
   To the sound of America drumming
  
   Call it pain, call it art, call it open your heart
   Let it go let it fly, let it rain(Oh yeah)
  
   He smiles and the clouds turn to black
   With the wind through the flowers come blowing
   The warning bell's on, "What's your name, Oh it's John",
   That's such an unusual name---Aye I Aye Ayy