Lyrics
Humour Me 1989
- If I Were Free
- Thanks To You
- They Just Can't Help Themselves
- Too Weak To Say Good-bye
- Let's Make A Baby King
- Well-A-Wiggy
- I Don't Think You Love Me Anymore
- Willow
- Humour Me
- I Want To Mean Something To You
- Pushover
- Love Is Fair
 If I Were Free
If I were free, what I would do
I'd run and lock myself away with you
And turn a ring, into a key
Oh, I know that's what I'd do
If I were free.
If I were strong, I would be so mild
I would be strong enough to love you like a child
I would turn a cry, into a song
Oh, I know that's what I would do
If I were strong.
If I were wise, then I would see
What makes you love a foolish man like me
I'd stand by you, just like a tree
Oh, I know that's what I would do
I would chain myself to you
I would never leave this room if I were free.
A line of birds, across the sun
Darling it's my fate to follow on the run
But girl this running is not for me
I would never run again if I were free.
And here's just what I'd do
I would chain myself to you
I would never leave this room if I was free.
©1989 Jesse Winchester
From the LP "Humour Me"
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Thanks To You
Goodness, is it really real
It would take a baby boy to know the way I feel
Oh my, floating in the blue
I would take the credit but it's thanks to you.
Oh yeah, I'm a sinner and I'm not some beginner
I'll uncork a pint of trouble
And sit down and drink a double
I'm thirsty for something lighter
That'll get me even tighter and tighter
Until one day I think I hear angels play.
Goodness, is it really real
It would take a baby boy to know the way I feel
Oh my, floating in the blue
I would take the credit but it's thanks to you.
Well, someday up in glory
I'll weep and tell the storey
To someone who will smile and say
"You're a mess, but you're my child."
Goodness, is it really real
It would take a baby boy to know the way I feel
Oh my, floating in the blue
I would take the credit but it's thanks to you.
Goodness, is it really real
It would take a baby boy to know the way I feel
Oh my, floating in the blue
I would take the credit but it's thanks to you.
(last verse until fade)
©1989 Jesse Winchester
From the LP "Humour Me"
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They Just Can't Help Themselves
There are those that go in for the money
They just never knew nothing else
There are those that go in just for the fun
And there are those who just can't help themselves.
And they just can't help themselves
They've given up control
They hear a little voice
That lives down in their soul
Say let's us go and find a cozy little hell
And no one tells them no
And they just can't help themselves
There are some have the scores and the lineups
And some pieces of heaven to sell
And when some people want something badly enough
Why then some people just help themselves.
And they just can't help themselves
They've given up control
They hear a little voice
That lives down in their soul
Say let's us go and find a cozy little hell
And no one tells them no
And they just can't help themselves
And they just can't help themselves
They've given up control
They hear a little voice
That lives down in their soul
Say let's us go and find a cozy little hell
And no one tells them no
And they just can't help themselves
And they just can't help themselves.
It's good when a games running smoothly
And it seems like it always goes well
For those who can take it or leave it alone
But God help them, if they can't help themselves.
And they just can't help themselves
They've given up control
They hear a little voice
That lives down in their soul
Say let's us go and find a cozy little hell
And no one tells them no
And they just can't help themselves
©1989 Jesse Winchester
From the LP "Humour Me"
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Too Weak To Say Good-bye
Still even though the feeling's gone
Still there's something lingers on
Strong enough to make me cry
But still to weak to say good-bye.
And words, I guess it's to late for words
It's nothing that you haven't heard
And I'm all out of alibis
And still to weak to say good-bye.
And please, there must be something I can do
Oh please, after all that we've been through
If I were you, I would stay
Give it just another day
Maybe it will go away
And maybe you'll discover why
I'm too weak to say good-bye.
And please, there must be something I can do
Oh please, after all that we've been through
If I were you, Girl I'd stay
Give it just another day
Maybe it will go away
Maybe you'll discover why
I'm too weak to say good-bye.
Still even though the feeling's gone
Still there's something lingers on
Strong enough to make me cry
And still to weak to say good-bye
I'm too weak to say good-bye
I'm too weak to say good-bye (fade).
©1989 Jesse Winchester
From the LP "Humour Me"
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Let's Make A Baby King
Once upon a Christmas morning
There was a pretty little baby boy
It seems like I remember sadness, mingling in the joy
Cause Mary saw the future and the sadness it would bring
That's how come Mary started crying
When she heard the angels sing.
Let's make a baby king
Let's make him lord of all
Let's give him everything
Let's make a baby king.
Well, now you remember little King David
Well he's this little baby's kin
He's cousin to a man named John
And I know you all remember him
And John said 'Let's get ready, herald angels sing,
Cause this old world sure needs to know
The good news that I bring.
Let's make a baby king
Let's make him lord of all
Let's give him everything
Let's make a baby king.
Let's make a baby king
Let's make him lord of all
Let's give him everything
Let's make a baby king.
We could use a revolution
The whole world's upside down
We need a new direction
We got to turn this whole thing around
We need a lord to guide us
And teach us wrong and right
We need a lamb to lead us, into a land of light.
Let's make a baby king
Let's make him lord of all
Let's give him everything
Let's make a baby king.
Well, now, once upon a Christmas morning
There was a pretty little baby boy
It seems like I remember sadness, mingling in the joy
Cause Mary saw the future and the sadness it would bring
That's how come Mary started crying
When she heard the angels sing.
Let's make a baby king
etc.
©1989 Jesse Winchester
From the LP "Humour Me"
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Well-A-Wiggy
Well-a-wiggy, you're my lover
Shoop shoop shoo bop
Whatcha betcha, we make it
Hey bop a ree bop
Whoa I, whoa I, whoa I
Wiggy you are coo-coo
You are tutti-frutti
You're crazy as a bed bug
But you're such a cutey
So come on let's go ramblin
Your daddy says we're gamblin
Your daddy may not know it
But your daddy's gambling too
Well-a-wiggy, you're my lover
Shoop shoop shoo bop
Whatcha betcha, we make it
Hey bop a ree bop
Whoa I, whoa I, whoa I
Well this is kinda fun here
Living in a side show
Wiggy you're so different
And I'm a guy to know so
O girl you get me crazy
Just listen to me laughing
And they who say we're crazy
Wiggy listen to them cry
Well-a-wiggy, you're my lover
Shoop shoop shoo bop
Whatcha betcha, we make it
Hey bop a ree bop
Whoa I, whoa I, whoa I
Well Wiggy you amaze me
Just living like you want to
Say Wiggy don't the future
Ever kind of haunt you?
Well baby don't you worry
Because everything is peachy
Everything is jelly
Wiggy everything is pie
©1989 Jesse Winchester
From the LP "Humour Me"
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I Don't Think You Love Me Anymore
Lately I've been thinking dear
And this is not like me
I'm good at being blind to things
That I don't want to see
Now you don't seem so cuddly with me
Like you were before
Gee, I don't think you love me anymore
Don't paint any pictures for me
I see for myself
I bet anything that you're in love with someone else
I bet in no time at all
You're showing me the door
Hey, I don't think you love me anymore
Now you don't play footsy with me
We don't sleep like spoons
We don't snuggle up and dance
To sweet old doo-wop tunes
And we don't kiss like Eskimos
And lock the bedroom door
Gee, I don't think you love me anymore
Gee, I guess I should have known
That it would end this way
If you can't win on every hand
Then you don't want to play
And you don't even care enough
To let me know the score
Oh, I don't think you love me anymore
Ah, no
Oh, I don't think you love me anymore...
©1989 Jesse Winchester
From the LP "Humour Me"
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Willow
Willow, Willow you are ever ready to go
Ready to go anyway the wind blows
I sure the wish the willow were inclined, so inclined
To need me, but Willow what you've really done
Is freed me, freed me from the roots that run so deeply
But I still wish the willow would be mine
Please be mine
And as for your weeping
Willow I offer a shoulder
And a tired old cliche
Tomorrow is another day
Every cloud's got a silver lining
It ain't no use just sitting and pining, Willow
Willow, there is still a thing or two you don't know
You say if it wasn't for the sorrow
Willow, then the world would be so fine, oh so fine
But it's so true, sadness kinda seems to just become you
I don't need the gaiety like some do
But I sure wish the willow would be mine
Girl, please be mine
And as for your weeping
Well Willow I offer a shoulder
And a tired old cliche
Tomorrow is another day
Every cloud's got a silver lining
And it ain't no use just sitting and pining, Willow
©1989 Jesse Winchester
From the LP "Humour Me"
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Humour Me
Forgive me if I seem a little distant
It's true I was a million miles away
Calling on a world that's far behind me
And still it seems like it was yesterday
Yesterday and just around the corner
I was playing cowboys in the sun
I had a little dog that really loved me
There's times I feel like she's the only one
Oh darling, you know I'm just fooling
You know I know your love for me is true
Humour me, humour me
Oh I would pay no mind if I were you
I remember loving Susan Parker
That's not the kind of thing that you'd forget
It's funny you know sometimes I imagine
I'm kind of sweet on Susan Parker yet
Oh darling, you know I'm just fooling
You know the only one for me is you
Humour me, humour me
Oh I would pay no mind if I were you
Oh, yesterday and just around the corner
I was playing cowboys in the sun
I had a little dog that really loved me
There's times I feel like she's the only one
Oh darling, you know I'm just fooling
You know I know your love for me is true
Humour me, humour me
Oh I would pay no mind if I were you
©1989 Jesse Winchester
From the LP "Humour Me"
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I Want To Mean Something To You
Our paths cross every day, but they never meet
Now my imagination says it would be so sweet
But I don't want your casual love, no, that's too cold
Girl I want to open your heart
To just reach in, and take a hold
I want to mean something to you
I want to mean something to you
I want to mean something to you
I want to mean something to you
In the corner of your world, that I call home
I can stand right by your side, and be all alone
But I don't want your friendly smile, and the time of day
No, I want a soul disturbance, high and low, and all the way
I want to mean something to you
I want to mean something to you
I want to mean something to you
I want to mean something to you
I want to be the man in the picture
That you show your friends
I want to be the one that you turn to
When the evening ends
I want to mean something to you
I want to mean something to you
I want to mean something to you
I want to mean something to you
©1989 Jesse Winchester
From the LP "Humour Me"
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Pushover
I know what they told you
About I'm so hard to know
How I could never love someone
Well that just isn't so
Cause I'm really kind of cuddly
Not to hard to take
I'm a teddy bear, I'm a piece of cake
And what you hear is barking
So I don't ever bite
Though I give off a lot of heat
But very little light
Consider me your plaything
I just can't say no
And I tag along everywhere you go
I'm a pushover
There ain't nothing to me
Pushover
You can see right through me
Some people
May say it ain't true
But hey baby
Maybe they don't push like you!
I'm a pushover
There ain't nothing to me
Pushover
You can see right through me
Some people
May say it ain't true
Oh but hey baby
Maybe they don't push like you!
Well, may I suggest a dinner
In some romantic place?
And we'll get this thing settled baby
Meeting face to face
Once you're close up to me
You'll see I ain't so tough
O I just play nice
I don't play too rough
I'm a pushover
There ain't nothing to me
Pushover
You can see right through me
Some people
May say it ain't true
But hey baby
Maybe they don't push like you!
©1988 Jesse Winchester
From the LP "Humour Me"
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Love Is Fair
I remember not that long ago
You cared about me and you told me so
But now the atmosphere is cool and dry
I get the feeling this will be good-bye
I'll admit that you'd be wise to go
I'll admit what you already know
And though I've done you like I just don't care
You must admit that I was always fair
Don't I make you laugh
If I make you cry
Don't I wipe each tear
I bring to your eye
If I break your heart
I make all repairs
I can fix that hurt
Girl I put it there
Oh yeah, love is hard but love is fair
Gee, I wish that this was Hollywood
Where the bad guy is bad and the good guy is good
Cause I'd be the hero in your every scene
We would run the bad guy right off the screen
Don't I make you laugh
If I make you cry
Don't I wipe each tear
I bring to your eye
If I break your heart
I make all repairs
I can fix that hurt
Girl I put it there
Oh yeah, love is hard but love is fair
©1988 Jesse Winchester
From the LP "Humour Me"
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