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Stay Outta My Business
02:55
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STAY OUTTA MY BUSINESS
T Neilson/ J Neilson
V1
Your head is shakin’, your mouth is frownin’
Your tongue’s a-waggin’ all over town and
Your eyes are judging, your elbows nudging
All the poison that you spread with each nasty word you’ve said
CH
Stay outta my business
Stay outta my business, leave it alone
The only business you got is your own
V2
Did you do that all by yourself girl
It’s not that good you might need my help girl
Without your star hitched up to my wagon
Girl you’re never gonna make it, no, your ass gonna be draggin’
CH
BRIDGE
Damned if I do and damned if I don’t
You want me play your game, but I won’t
You’re only happy causing trouble and strife
But I’m too busy with my damn good without you in it life
V3
A woman stay home to raise the babies
‘Must be nice to do nothing, must be lazy’
And so she go out to make the money
‘How can you leave your babies, you’re a bad, bad Mommy’
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2. |
Bananas
02:31
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BANANAS
T Neilson/J Neilson
V1
Here in the jungle, girl you gotta rumble
They don’t want your melons or your peaches or pears
Bananas here, bananas there, seems it’s nothing but bananas everywhere
V2
Too outspoken like a record that’s broken
Just wishin and hopin’ for your day to come
Off you run, go have fun, leave it to the big boys to get the job done
CH
It’s bananas, it’s the crazy talk
Buzz her brain with the electric shock
Burst your bubble now pop, pop, pop
This is a big boys game
It’s bananas she want equal pay just for working all night and day
Give your head a shake, girl, no way
It’s bananas, bananas, bananas
V3
It’ll leave you reeling when you hit the glass ceiling
Watch your pretty head, take my advice
Best think twice, just play nice, keep those big ambitions of yours on ice
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3. |
Diamond Ring
03:11
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Diamond Ring
T Neilson
V1
Hit the button, elevator going up
A black leather shoe jams the door before it shuts
Big teeth talkin’ all the way to my floor
Asks for my number, I push past him out the door
Don’t need the pain that lovin’ brings
Don’t want no other man’s diamond ring
V2
I’m down at the church, singing Hymn 23
Sweet salvation from the pain you left me
Pinstriped suit asks to sit in your chair
I say it’s taken, even though you ain’t there
Don’t need the pain that lovin’ brings
Don’t want no other man’s diamond ring
CH
If there’s a table for one, then I'm gonna take it
Won’t hand over my heart for some fool break it
Don’t need the pain that lovin’ brings
Ain’t gonna wear no other man’s diamond ring
VS3
Still got your name on my mail
Got your memory on my tail
I got your ring here on my right hand
What I ain’t got is time for no other man
Don’t need that pain that lovin’ brings
Don’t want no other man’s diamond ring
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4. |
A Woman's Pain
02:57
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A Woman's Pain
T Neilson
V1
Daddy’s Mama was a child of the nation
Raised on a white man’s little reservation
Three girls, one more in the belly of her Mama
Robbed by death giving life to her daughter
V2
Baby grew up fast, yeah she was a fast one
One half child, the other half woman
Shotgun wedding ‘fore the baby arrived
Man run off, left a child to raise a child
CH
Partake of pleasure and reap the shame
The hand that holds the power assigns the blame
And this old world turns on a woman’s pain
V3
Throw me a bone and I’ll make you a woman
God said to Adam in the Garden of Eden
The moment her lips touched forbidden fruit
He said I’ll curse you with pain and a man will rule you
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5. |
Devil In a Dress
03:06
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Devil in a Dress
T Neilson/J Neilson
V1
White smoke curling from her lips
Ruby red cherry on her fingertips
Tight skirt wiggle when she walks
Curses like a sailor every time she talks
CH
She’s a devil or an angel, sweet
Heart of innocence or villainy
One-dimensional fantasy
Here to curse or bless
A damsel in distress
Or just a devil in a dress
V2
Ten Hail Marys from her lips
Rosary running though her fingertips
White linen rustle when she walks
Blessings on the children every time she talks
CH
V3
White smoke curling from her lips
Rosary running through her fingertips
Tight skirt wiggle when she walks
Blessings on the children every time she talks
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6. |
One Thought of You
02:16
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One Thought of You
R Neilson/T Neilson
With just one thought of you
To get me through the night
I dream the sweetest dreams
But it seems all those dreams
End with daylight
Down the halls our shadows dance
Stars uncross our star-crossed romance
One more final chance
To whisper all the things I should’ve said, this time
Just one thought of you
And I can face the dark
Each moonlight tryst
And midnight kiss
From those lips I’ve missed
Til again we part
And now goodbye
Until tonight, my Darling
I’ll be killing time with just one thought of you
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7. |
Miss Jones
02:30
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MISS JONES
T Neilson
V1
Big mouth, talkin sass
Shinin with her big brass
Haters they can kiss her ass
Before the door hits it
Drop the mic, don’t care
Bring the fire everywhere
Tell her no, don’t you dare
The girl is gonna get it
Get it, get it, yeah, alright
V2
Swingin’ skirt, feet jumpin’
Man, that Woman sure is something
Gets your blood pumpin’
Damn the girl can sing
100 nights and days
The Queen and Kings play
Tearing up every stage
A hurricane on legs
Look out, look out, yeah, alright
CH
Miss Jones, Miss Jones
Ain’t no one above ya Miss Jones
Miss Jones, Miss Jones
Oh how I love ya Miss Jones
V3
Genuine, real deal
Girl has always kept it real
Don’t ya know she’s still here
Can’t ya hear her sing
Heavens yes, Hell no
This ain’t Mama’s last show
Teachin angels, don’t you know
To get up off their thangs
Get up, get up, yeah, alright
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8. |
Smoking Gun
03:41
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Smoking Gun
T Neilson/J Neilson
V1
Skeletons rattle inside
Dark and dirty closets ‘neath the Hollywood sign
Paid up their ransom in flesh
To the Piper with the power to destroy or bless
V2
Well, there’s a predator creepin’ in the pool
The King of the Casting Couch where he rules
Golden boy has started to crack
Squirming like a worm under our magnifying glass
CH
Well you can run, boy, but you can’t hide
The judgment day has finally come
For the man who holds the smoking gun
Bang bang goes the smoking gun
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9. |
Kitty Cat
02:03
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Kitty Cat
T Neilson
V1
Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat
Where’s your Mama at
What you doing out all alone
Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat don’t you want a pat
And if you like it can I take you home
CH
She might wave her tail in your direction
Show you a little bit of love and affection
Lick and purr and give you a scratch
But that don’t mean that she’s your Kitty Cat
V2
Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat
Let me pay for that
Don’t you say no and make me pout
Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat
Don’t be a silly brat
One little kiss ain’t gonna put you out
CH
V3
Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat
Don’t tell me to scat
I ain’t leaving til I get my way
Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat
Don’t want my coat and hat
I bought you dinner, now I’m here to stay
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Manitoba Sunrise at Motel 6
T Neilson
V1
8000 miles from home, I just looked it up
This ain’t my bed, my TV or my coffee cup
Silence fills my head like the snow hits the ground
A line of pillows next to me that never make a sound
CH
O lonesome prairie wind
Won’t you blow me home again
To the love I left behind
That never leaves my mind
My head is dark and my heart feels sick
A Manitoba sunrise at another Motel 6
V2
A Western Star rolls by, someplace it needs to be
Watch the taillights leave for miles, is that how you watch me
I’m asleep, you’re awake, I’m awake, you’re asleep
Don’t matter night or day
In my broken heart you beat
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11. |
Good Man
05:22
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Good Man
T Neilson
V1
I don’t hear you
And by now I should hear you
Even when you don’t say a word
You don’t see me
Sometimes you don’t see me
The way I wish you would
But you know I’ll always choose you
If there’s a choice to be made
I’d be a damn fool to lose you and lose my way
CH
‘Cause you’re a good man
And a good man don’t just come along every day
A good, good man, my love, my sweetest friend
It’s always you I’m gonna come back to
My, my, my good man
V2
I know I’m not easy
But getting things easy
Was never quite your style
And I love you like nobody else baby
The good and the hard times, they’re just the same thing
When I got you by my side
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"A red-hot honky-tonker, somewhere between Patsy Cline and Wanda Jackson with perhaps just a little bit of Peggy Lee sophistication.”- Nick Bollinger, RNZ
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