Everything in New Orleans is a good idea.

Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast

You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin

I lost my one true love. I started drinking.

You don't count the dead, when god's on your side.

Being singer is different than being an actor, where you call up sources from your own experience that you can apply to whatever Shakespeare drama you're in. But an actor is pretending to be somebody, a singer isn't. And that's the difference. Singers today have to sing songs where there's very little emotion involved. That and the fact that they have to sing hit records from years gone by doesn't leave a lot of room for any kind of intelligent creativity.

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.