Summer Night City

 

Summer night city
summer night city

Waiting for the sunrise

soul dancin’ in the dark summer night city
walkin’ in the moonlight

love-makin’ in a park summer night city

In the sun I feel like sleepin’

I can’t take it for too long
my impatience slowly creepin’

up my spine and growin’ strong

I know what’s waiting there for me

tonight I’m loose and fancy free ah –

When the night comes with the action I just know it’s time to go
can’t resist the strange attraction from that giant dynamo
lots to take and lots to give time to breathe and time to live

Waiting for the sunrise

soul dancin’ in the dark summer night city
walkin’ in the moonlight

love-makin’ in a park summer night city

It’s elusive call it glitter

somehow something turns me on
some folks only see the litter

we don’t miss ’em when they’re gone

I love the feeling in the air

my kind of people everywhere ah –

When the night comes with the action I just know it’s time to go
can’t resist the strange attraction from that giant dynamo
and tomorrow when it’s dawning and the first birds start to sing
in the pale light of the morning nothing’s worth remembering
it’s a dream, it’s out of reach scattered driftwood on a beach

Waiting for the sunrise

soul dancin’ in the dark summer night city
walkin’ in the moonlight

love-makin’ in a park summer night city

 

 

Medley:

Pick A Bale OF Cotton-On Top Of Old Smokey-Midnight Special

 

Gonna jump down, spin around, pick a bale of cotton
gonna jump down, spin around, pick a bale a day
gonna jump down, spin around, pick a bale of cotton
gonna jump down, spin around, pick a bale a day

Oh Lordy, pick a bale of cotton, oh Lordy, pick a bale a day
oh Lordy, pick a bale of cotton, oh Lordy, pick a bale a day

I said me and my buddy gonna pick a bale of cotton
now me and my buddy gonna pick a bale a day
I said me and my buddy gonna pick a bale of cotton
now me and my buddy gonna pick a bale a day

Oh Lordy, pick a bale of cotton, oh Lordy, pick a bale a day
oh Lordy, pick a bale of cotton, oh Lordy, pick a bale a day

On top of old Smokey all covered with snow
I lost my true lover by courting so slow
for courtin’s a pleasure and parting is brief
and a false-hearted lover is worse than a thief
on top of old Smokey all covered with snow
I lost my true lover by courting so slow

Well, you wake up in the mornin’ hear the ding-dong ring
you go marchin’ to the table see the same old thing
see the fork on the table nothing in your pan
if you say a thing about it you’re in trouble with the man

Let the midnight special shine a light on me
let the midnight special shine its everlovin’ light on me

If you ever go to Houston well you’d better act right
and you you’d better not gamble and you’d better not fight
for the sheriff will arrest you and he’ll take you down
and before you understand it you are prison bound

Let the midnight special shine a light on me
let the midnight special shine its everlovin’ light on me

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