Lyrics for singles by The Doobie Brothers
Listen to the Music
Jesus Is Just Alright
Long Train Runnin'
China Grove
Black Water
What a Fool Believes
'Don't you feel it growin', day by day
People gettin' ready for the news
Some are happy, some are sa-a-a-ad
Woah, gotta let the music play
What the people need is a way to make them smile
Ain't so hard to do if you know how
Gotta get a message, get it on throu-ou-ou-ough
Oh now momma don't you ask me why
Oh, oh, oh listen to the music
Oh, oh, oh listen to the music
Oh, oh, oh listen to the music
All the time
When, when i know you know baby, everything I say
meet me in the country for a day
We'll be happy and we'll dance
Oh, we're gonna dance our blues away
And if I'm feelin' good to you and you`re feelin' good to me
there ain't nothin' we can't do or say
Feelin' good, feeling fine
Oh, baby, let the music play
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Like a lazy flowing river
surrounding castles in the sky
And the crowd is growing bigger
list'nin' for the happy sounds
and I got to let them fly
[chorus]
Jesus is just alright with me
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright with me
Jesus is just alright
I don't care what they may say
I don't care what they may do
I don't care what they may say
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo
Jesus is just alright with me
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright with me
Jesus is just alright
I don't care what they may know
I don't care where they may go
I don't care where they may go
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah !
Jesus, he's my friend
I said Jesus, he's my friend
He took me by the hand
He let me far from this land
Jesus, he's my friend !
Down around the corner, half a mile from here
See them long trains run, and you watch them disappear
Without love, where would you be now
Without lo-o-o-ove
You know I saw miss Lucy down along the tracks
She lost her home and her family and she won't be coming back
Without love, where would you be right now
Without lo-o-o-ove
Well the Illinois Central
And the Southern Central Freight
Got to keep on pushin' mama
You know they're running late
Without love, where would you be now
Without lo-o-o-ve
Well the pistons keep on turning
And the wheels go round and round
The steel rails are cold and hard
For the miles that they go down
Without love, where would you be right now
Without lo-o-o-ve ooh
Where would you be now
Baby baby baby babe oh won't you move it down
I gotta keep on moving, gotta keep on moving
When the sun comes up on the sleepy little town
Down around San Antone
and the folks are risin' for another day
Round about their homes
The people of the town are strange
And they're proud of where they came
Well you're talking 'bout China Grove
Talking 'bout your China Grove
Wo ho ho! Wo oh! China Grove
Well the preacher and the teacher
Lord they're a caution
They are the talk of the town
When the gossip gets to flying and they ain't lyin'
When the sun goes falling down
They say that the father's insane
and dear Miss Perkin's a game
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But every day there's a new thing coming
The ways of an Oriental view
The sheriff and his buddies with their samurai swords
You can even hear the music at night
and though it's a part of the Lone Star State
People don't seem to care
They just keep on looking to the east
Well, I built me a raft and she's ready for floatin'
ol' Mississippi, she's callin' my name
Catfish are jumpin' that paddle wheel thumpin'
Black water keeps rollin' on past just the same
Old black water, keep on rollin'
Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?
Old black water, keep on rollin'
Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?
Old black water, keep on rollin'
Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?
Yeah, keep on shinin' your light, gonna make every thing
Pretty mama, gonna make everything all right
And I ain't got no worries 'cause I ain't in no hurry at all
Well, if it rains, I don't care, don't make no difference to me
Just take that street car that's goin' up town
Yeah, I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland and dance a honky tonk
And I'll be buyin' everybody drinks all roun'
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I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland
Pretty momma come and take me by the hand
By the hand, take me by the hand
I want to honky-tonk honky-tonk
pretty momma, come and dance with your daddy all night long
I'd like to honky-tonk with you all night long
He came from somewhere back in her long ago
The sentimental fool don't see
Tryin' hard to recreate
What had yet to be created once in her life
She musters a smile
For his nostalgic tale
Never coming near what he wanted to say
Only to realize
It never really was
She had a place in his life
He never made her think twice
As he rises to her apology
Anybody else would surely know
He's watching her go
But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
And nothing at all keeps sending him
Somewhere back in her long ago
Where he can still believe there's a place in her life
Someday, somewhere, she will return
[chorus]