the RIG album  - '70 - the lyrics




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1)  carousel  -    

             pick me up and put me down
               
pick me up and put me down, down, down, down
                horses and monkeys pick me and put me down

                do you see it go by
                can you feel it passing
                don't you want to touch it
                we are moving clockwise

                clockwise up and clockwise down
                clockwise up and clockwise down, down, down
                horses and monkeys clockwise up
                and clockwise down, down, down

                i can never see you
                you can never see me
                as we really must be
                still and always moving


2)  evening at home # 2 -                      for lyrics to this song click here




3)  have a cigar  -                                  lyrics of
this song can be found  here




4)  laughing trees  -   


        in my life i have seen it
        travelin' every place
        the bitterness in each man
        is written on his face

        the eyes of lonely people
        are mirrored in my own
        and the pain of their revolution
        is splashed on every stone

        laughing trees, come laugh with me
        laughing trees, and i'll laugh with thee.

        a man must try to lift his head up
        the only way he knows how
        in his hand is a rusted hammer
        and behind him is a broken plow

        fear has overtaken him
        the way that it always must
        to stop his mind from working
        to turn his dreams to dust

       
laughing trees, come laugh with me
        laughing trees, and i'll laugh with thee.

        in my life i have seen it
        travelin' every place
        the bitterness in each man
        is written on his face

        the eyes of lonely people
        are mirrored in my own
        and the pain of their revolution
        is splashed on every stone

        laughing trees, come laugh with me
        laughing trees, and i'll laugh with thee.



5)  liza bookman  -                                 lyrics for this song can be found here
   
   



6)  mr.  rich man   -   


        hey, mr rich man, do you believe
        you could be happier than you are today
        a man long ago said 'give it all away'
        you could be richer in another way

        hey, mr rich man do you believe
        time might decide you're just a castaway
        and it wouldn't matter what you had to say
        you would lose everything that you have today

        then again, huckleberry pie might get in your eye
        if you're not careful
        the faces waiting in the cold tonight
        are wanting to come in
        to your well lighted parlor

        hey, mr rich man, do you believe
        that it won't do any good if you run away
        and you might do better if you tried to stay
        you could be sadder than you are today

       
then again, huckleberry pie might get in your eye
        if you're not careful
        the faces waiting in the cold tonight
        are wanting to come in
        to your well lighted parlor

        hey, mr rich man, do you believe
        you could be happier than you are today
        a man long ago said 'give it all away'
        you could be richer in another way



7)  my sweet woman  -


      
 if you want to go to the movies
        well i tell you that i'm ready to go
        'cause i got nothin' to do
        but go to the movies
        till my sweet woman comes home
        till she comes home

        and if you want to play some music
        well just hand me down, hand me down my guitar
        'cause i got nothin'
       
on my mind but music
        till my sweet woman comes home

        hey, if you want to go out and get stone
        well, i tell you now, i don't mind if i do
        'cause i got no way
        no way to be happy, no, no
       
till my sweet woman,  
        till she comes home.
        until
she comes home.
       
till she comes home.




8)  please stick around  -                          lyrics
for this song can be found here