Songs
Audio and lyrics for songs featured on A Prairie Home Companion.
Audio and lyrics for songs featured on A Prairie Home Companion.
I think the world of you
I wish you well
Whatever tightens your screw
Whatever rings your bell
I’ve been unwanted before it’s true
And uninvited a time or two
Today I’m feeling unusually blue
I’ve been unfriended by you
When I come to the spring, the time of romance,
The season of amour
And I dig in the dirt and I set out the plants
And mix in the horse manure.
Slow days of summer
In this old town
Sun goes across the sky
Sometimes a car goes by
There’s one right now.
Back to the old backstage,
The old dressing room,
Get out the old soft shoes,
And the old costume —
If you want to be my friend, you can be a Democrat, anarchist Republican, but you need to be good to waitresses, cleaning ladies and taxi drivers
You can be young or old or smart or not so much but please don’t throw your grandmother down the stairs, if you want to be my friend,
Don’t put whipped cream in my coffee.
Don’t put a lime wedge in my beer.
Don’t want pepper on my salad.
I just wish that she were here.
Goodbye to my uncles, farewell to my aunts
One after another, they go and lie down
In the green pastures beside the still waters
And make no sound.