The Flying Dutchman In the storming waters off the Cape of Good Hope I did see That cursed ship the Flying Dutchman. Now there is no hope for me The ghost of Captain Hendrick Van Der Decken and his phantom crew I saw across our port bow as clear as I see you Upon the wind that captain cried across the water desperately ‘Send a message to the shore! The Dutchman still rides the sea’ I had not the heart to tell him that those he once knew upon the shore Must have long ago all died and are gone forever-more Chorus Last night I dreamed of Amsterdam and my sweet Mary Jane And my beloved Netherland where I will never walk again “I defy you God to stop me,” Van Der Decken had proudly cried “A curse upon you foolish sailor,” God replied And that captain and his crew were condemned to sail the sea In the violent waters of the Cape for all eternity Bridge In the angry waters of the Cape that ghost ship I did see Where we as well are now doomed to drift and wait, eternally “A curse upon you God, and damn you,” I spoke to he “And a curse upon you foolish sailor,” God spoke to me Oh the face of my true love no longer will I see Condemned as well to drift these lonely waters now as I must be Chorus Last night I dreamed I was in the arms of my sweet Mary Jane Dancing at the Perseverance Tavern on solid earth again Will this eternal tempest never end? Will we never find our way? Out of this nightmare and back to Cape-town and the docks of Table Bay Bridge In the angry waters of The Cape that ghost ship crossed our way Now we as well are cursed to beat about until the judgement day Lyrics: RB Lonetree

Soul Boat One of these days when I build my boat I’m going to sail away across the long blue sea One of these days I will build my boat And sail right into eternity But right now there lies a sea of sand Between my dreams and the ocean shore But some day soon I will cross that desert And sail away forever more Chorus I’m going to build myself a strong soul boat Something right to carry me Across that bloody River Styx Across that black and burning sea She was wild as a mustang when I met her With long black hair and obsidian eyes And skin like a blazing shield of bronze And the passion of a thousand wildfires Now she’s gone, gone forever And that’s all I’ve got to say about that one And some day soon I’ll be gone too I’m going to sail right into the setting sun Chorus I’m going where the desert meets the bright blue sea I’m going to sail right into eternity And I’ll be the ocean, I’ll be the sea And you can all sail your soul boats right over me Chorus Lyrics: RB Lonetree

Idle Talk Some day I’ll go down to the dark highway And wait for a ride to come and carry me away Chorus Him- “I think it’s time I took that long long walk” Her- “Oh my love are you challenging me? Empty words and idle talk” Him-“Oh my love, just wait and see” Some day I’ll go down to the harbour shore And sail away on a tall-ship forever-more Chorus Some day I’ll go down to the railway track And hitch a ride on a freight-train and never come back Chorus Well, I can hear that west wind blowing free I’ve got a head full of dreams that are haunting me Chorus Him- “I think it’s time I took that long long walk” Her- “Oh my love are you challenging me Empty words and idle talk” Him-“Oh my love, my sweet love'

I stood on every shore And watched many suns and moons tumble into the sea While the wild winds of time Blew strong and free through me I sang in every song In every tongue, the song of songs I was there in every chorus And the seasons danced along Chorus Many more suns, many more moons Shall rise and fall from the sky Upon my journey like the Albatross I’ll keep on moving While I still have wings to fly I drifted through every continent Over every land, upon every sea And all the world’s sorrow, joy and mystery Was my company I laughed with every soul And I cried with every clown I donned the jester’s sad cap and cape And I borrowed the sage’s heavy gown Chorus I marvelled at the moon and sun The stars and planets too And when my every day was done I helped them rise anew I danced with all the dead And with them I did sit and dine I laughed, I cried, I dreamed, I bled I ate their bread and I drank their wine Chorus Lyrics: RB Lonetree

Saint Vincent de Paul Well it don't cost a thing to look at the moon And food tastes the same from a wooden or a silver spoon Chorus Don't cry now babe, don't worry at all We'll grow our own food and get all our clothes From Saint Vincent de Paul Well the sun shines the same for the rich as it does for you and I Yeah god gives money to them rich, for without it they'd die Chorus Don't fear now lover, don't worry at all There's a lucky star above us and a saint looking over us Saint Vincent de Paul The best things in life, well, you know, they're still free Mountains and sunshine, the beach, and the wild blue sea Chorus Don't fear now babe, don't worry at all When that winter wind blows There will be food on the table and warm clothes to wear From Saint Vincent de Paul Si mi amor. Dios les dar el dinero a los ricos por que si no lo tuvieron se moririan de hambre Y sabes algo, mi amor? El sol es la cobija de los pobres No necesetamos dinero mi amor, tenemos San Vincent de Paul Estamos feliz aqui con que tenemos !Alegre alegre entonces mi amor! Y gracias San Vincent de Paul, la tienda buena Lyrics: RB Lonetree

The Cootchie Man There's a darkness moving in the camp tonight Better run, better hide, better do what you can There's a darkness moving in the camp tonight Feels like a visit from the Cootchie Man There's an ill wind blowin' in the camp tonight Sands are swirlin' in clouds of red There's an ill wind blowin' in the camp tonight Cootchie man's song gonna wake the dead There's a red moon risin' in the desert tonight Stars might fall from the sky There's a red moon risin' in the desert tonight The womens all wail and the childs all cry Hounds is howlin' in the camp tonight Cootchie man drivin' em half insane Hounds is howlin' in the camp tonight Barkin' at shadows on the desert plain There’s fires burning by the graves tonight To warm the bones of the restless dead There’s fires burning by the graves tonight Childs’ are all hiding in their beds Clever Man make ritual in the camp tonight All painted up like a ghost so pale Clever Man make ritual in the camp tonight Beat on the ground with a Kangaroo tail Childs all quiet in the camp tonight Clever Man he chased that Cootchie away Childs all quiet in the camp tonight Sleep easy now childs till the break of day

Let The Rivers Run Let the rivers run onward to the sea Let the seedling grow into a mighty tree Let the forests stand in all their majesty Admit them when they knock, admit the refugee Let the children play, as they care to play Let the people say, whatever they wish to say Let the singer sing, all through the night and day And the man who will not fight, let him walk away And the sleeping dogs, let them to their lying And the birds above, let them to their flying And the newborn child, let it to its crying And the old and infirm, let them to their dying Let the different faiths agree to disagree Let all the tribes live as one in harmony Let things be I say to you, and again, let things be Let the rivers run onward to the sea Let the dreamers dream of every sweet delight Let the lovers love, through the darkness of the night Let the morning find them sleeping, clothed in only daylight Let their souls know the glory and their hearts know it to be right Let the rivers run, let the sky rain and rain Let the good earth grow up the golden grain Let the wild live wild and the tame live tame Let the wild horses dance on the high open plain

Sailor’s Song (This Is Not A Country Song) This is not a country song Though it sounds a little like one Please don’t you call it one Because you’d be wrong This is not a country song There’s no country to which I belong Drifting forever between two shores On an endless sea of dreams Chorus Yes this is a sailor’s song, a song of the sea And the wind and roaring waves are singing it with me This is not a country song I belong to the open sea And to the gypsy wind Blowing over me I’ve got that wind in my sails I’ve got that wind in my hair An albatross high above me On a wing and a prayer She might be an omen She might be a lucky sign Yeah I think she’s an omen I think she’s a lucky sign Chorus Yes this is a sailor’s song, a song of the sea And the wind and wailing gulls are singing it with me This is not a country song There’s no earth beneath me Only shipwrecks and sharks And miles of deep blue sea

Hands Upon the Plough I’ve got a foreign woman, she whispers, “Yo te amo” in my ear I pretend that I don’t notice, I pretend that I don’t hear I’ve got a chestnut mare with just a splash of smoky grey I don’t need no directions, my horse she knows the way I’ve got a song inside my heart, I’ve got a song inside my head It keeps my legs a dancing, it keeps my belly fed I’ve got some bad ideas, but I’ve got some good ones as well They might make me rich some day, they might wind me up in hell I’ve got a hammer and a sickle, I’ve got some earth to plough I’ve got four and twenty chickens, three goats and a Jersey cow I’ve got some good friends around me, they keep me on the true road They pick me up when I stumble and they help to bear my load I’ve got a wind-up wrist-watch, it ticks the hours too slow But it don’t bother me any, cause there’s no place that I’ve got to go I’ve got a date with destiny, though I’m sure that I’ll be late But my legs are in no hurry, I leave all things to fate I’ve got two good hands, they’re steady and they’re strong I keep them fastened to the plough, and that’s where they belong

The Girl She’s Crazy, Just Not About Me This girl I been lovin,’ she ain’t been lovin’ me She’s not bound to the earth she belongs to the sky She’s not bound by flesh or blood or loyalty This girl she could never belong to me This girl she is crazy, just not about me After I lay down with her I have the feeling you get When you are brushed by a stranger in a busy market-place And you check for your wallet to feel it’s still there I checked for my soul cause I just had to see Because I know the girl’s crazy, just not about me She talks with the earth and the animals all And the laughing leaves and the speaking trees And the murmuring streams and the wailing wind And she burned all my books and she smashed my TV This girl she is crazy, just not about me She lives in a movie, a Hollywood movie Where she plays the heroine and never has to cry Never has to grow old, wither or die And she suffers no sickness and time can’t touch her she’s free Flying way above me She talks to Jesus, Buddha and Allah She calls them her children, says she’s the mother Of all creation, she says ‘life is illusion, don’t you see?’ Only love matters and my love I give it for free Yeah she knows about love but she don’t love me She practises witchcraft in the dead of the night With her sister the moon all dressed up in white And she rules the darkness, she rules the night She is the darkness and she is the light, shining brightly But not upon me With her collection of crystals, sea-shells and stones Effigies and idols and animal bones She lays on her altar my spirit and soul She says ‘they’re safe with the rest come give them to me’ But I hide them away cause I know that she don’t love me She wears the feathers of eagles in her wild honey hair She says she flies to her secret place in the sky And she’s nobody’s fool, she’s nobody’s slave Flying like a bird she is way above me The girl she is crazy, just not about me She dances for the sun as he crosses the sky Then as night time gathers in the western sky She sings him to sleep with a soft lullaby And as darkness comes creeping hungrily I feel safe in her arms but I know that she don’t love me She lives in a dream, a half-woken dream A half-broken dream that she stitches and mends Where nothing is certain and nothing is real And I’m waiting for her to wake. I’m waiting so patiently I’ll be waiting forever, cause she don’t love me She says ‘dance for the sun if you seek the true light, boy And never let it find you sleeping Learn to see with eyes closed if you desire true sight The two in your head are for weeping So I shut my eyes tight cause I just want to see I see it clear enough now this girl, she don’t love me There’s little worth killing for in this world, and little worth dying for Little worth stealing for and little worth lying for And it is better to die on your feet than to live on your knee But I’d die for her daily or fall to my knee But I know that she’s dangerous this girl, and she don’t love me She tells me she’ll love me forever, and that she’s always loved me She believes in love at first sight and sweetness and light And she speaks of fate, magic and destiny And I’d love to believe her, really I would But I know in my soul this girl don’t really love me Lyrics; RB Lonetree

What If? What if the goddess of the earth Withheld the fruits and grains? What if the gods of thunder and lightning No longer brought the rains? What if the soils miscarried the seed In the wounded womb of the earth? And the unborn clay could not be awoken To rejoin the circle of birth? Chorus But what if every one of us did one day come to see That what is done unto the earth is done to you and me? What if the rivers dammed to silence Could no longer find the sea? And the breathless waters sang no more But lay still in stagnancy? What if the birds too burdened with grief Fell like stones from the sky? What if the animals too weary mourning All laid down to die? Chorus What if the sad moon too busy weeping Forgot to wax and wane? What if the clouds, too laden with acid Could no longer hold their rain? What if the last tree standing Fell beneath the cutter’s blade? And we only realised then that we could not eat All the money that we’d made? Chorus What if the oceans drowned in their sorrow With all the life they held inside What if the rising salt choked the ground And all the earth withered and died What if the madmen who hold the codes Finally turned the key? And the ill wind we sowed in fear and hatred Returned a whirl-wind upon you and me Lyrics: RB Lonetree