Night In The Ruts
- Released
- November 01, 1979
- Label
- Columbia Records
- Recorded At
- Mediasound and The Record Plant, NYC
- Length
- 35:38
- Discs
- 1
- Credits
- Tyler/Perry
- Length
- 4:26
- Additional Personnel
- Richie Supa (Guitars)
- First known play
- 1979-12-05
- Most recent known play
- 2002-02-03
- Total known full plays
- 23
- Total times opening a show
- 1
1971, we all heard the starters gun
New York was such a pity
But at Max's Kansas City we won
We all shot the shit at the bar
With Johnny O' Toole and his scar
And then old Clive Davis said
He's surely gonna make us a star
"I'm gonna make you a star
Just the way you are"
But with all his style
I could see in his eyes
That we is goin' on trial
It was no surprize
The boys kept kickin' ass
As usual time would tell
But some bitch in the choir
Throw water on the fires of hell
She loved to show and tell
Lord, she loved to tell
But with all our style
You could see in our eyes
That we is still on trial
And it was no surprize
No surprize
No surprize
No surprize
Midnight lady
Situation fetal
Vaccinate your ass with
your phonograph needle
I say looky here
Friend of mine
You scratch like you need calamine
Flamingo boots, soles a creakin'
Still in love and Puerto Rican too
Ridin' on wheels of hell
Smokin' our axle grease
Oh, the backstage is rockin'
And we're coppin' from the local police
That's right, the local police
Or the juctice of peace
But with all our style
You could see in our eyes
That we is still on trial
Baby, it's no surprize
No surprize
No surprize
No surprize
Rock n' roll, junkie whore
Got my foot inside the door
Knock knock, knock knock, knock
Nobody's keepin' score
Bad times go away
Come again some other day
Topaz and sazzafraz
Will keep the blues away
Candy store, rock n' roll
Corporation jellyroll
Play the singles, it ain't me
It's programmed insanity
You ASCAP, if BMI
Could ever make a mountain fly
If Japanese can boil teas
Then where the fuck's my royalties
- Credits
- Tyler/Perry
- Length
- 4:24
- Additional Personnel
- George Young (Alto Sax), Lou Delgotto (Baritone Sax), Lou Marini (Tenor Sax), Barry Rogers (Trombone)
- First known play
- 1978-12-05
- Most recent known play
- 2001-09-09
- Total known full plays
- 3
Ooh, on the beach in Cartagena
She, salty baby with the name
Oh, chiquita
No no, chiquita
She, takes me walkin' in de sunshine
She, she'll be lovin' till de moon shine
Love chiquita
Oh love chiquita
She, got the poppy-eyed desire
Tease, till the boys put out your fire
Love chiquita
Oh, love chiquita
Oh, no, no, now don't you wake me up
I'm dreamin'
No, no, no, if you shake me
I'll be screamin'
Love chiquita
Oh, love chiquita
- Credits
- George Morton
- Length
- 4:04
- First known play
- 1980-01-11
- Most recent known play
- 2017-07-05
- Total known full plays
- 12
- Total known partial plays
- 1
Seems like the other day
My baby went away
She went away, 'cross the sea
It's been two years or so
Since I saw my baby go
And then this letter came for me
It said that we was through
She found somebody new
Oh, lemme think, lemme think
What shall I do
Oh, no
Oh, no
Oh, no no no no no
Remember, walking in the sand
Remember, walking hand in hand
Remember, the night was so exciting
Remember, her smile was so inviting
Remember, then she touched my cheek
Remember, with her fingertips
Remember, softly
Softly we met with a kiss
Whatever happened to
The girl that I once knew
The girl that said, she'd been true
Oh, whatever happened to
That night I gave it to you
What will I do with it now
Oh, no
Oh, no
Oh, no no no no
Remember, walking in the sand
Remember, walking hand in hand
Remember, the night was so exciting
Remember, her smile was so inviting
Remember, a-then she touched my cheek
Remember, with her fingertips
Remember, softly
Softly we met with a kiss
Whatever happened to
That girl that I once knew
That girl that said, she'd been true
Whatever happened to
That night I gave it to you
What would you do with it now
- Credits
- Tyler/Perry
- Length
- 4:15
- Total known full plays
- 0
- Total known partial plays
- 18
I met a babe in a backseat drive-in
Back in the saddle she'd sit
Pulled on the reins just to keep me risin'
She loved to chomp at the bit
Daddy do it, ooh, just do it
Daddy do it, please let me see
Do it, please just do it daddy
Do it, do it, drivin' me crazy
She always walks with her eyes
Down on her bootlace
She lives to give it away
She don't believe in the
Right time or the wrong place
She's always liable to say
Daddy do it, ooh, just do it
Daddy do it, please let me see
Do it, please just do it daddy
Do it, do it, drivin' me crazy
Cheese cake, looser than her sister
Cheese cake, mm, her sugar gets me high
She knows I can't resist her
Cheese cake
Got my fingers in her pie
Cheese cake
Cheese cake, sneakin' out the back door
Cheese cake, rollin' down the lawn
Everybody kissed her
Cheese cake
Oh, at the crack of dawn
Cheese cake
Daddy do it, ooh, just do it
Daddy do it, please let me see
Daddy do it, please just do it daddy
Do it, do it, do it, drivin' me crazy
Cheese cake, looser than her sister
Cheese cake, mm, her sugar gets me high
She knows I can't resist her
Cheese cake
Got my fingers in her pie
Cheese cake
Cheese cake
- Credits
- Tyler/Perry
- Length
- 3:42
- Additional Personnel
- Jimmy Crespo (Lead Guitar)
- First known play
- 1979-12-05
- Most recent known play
- 1986-08-31
- Total known full plays
- 91
Take a walk in the warm New England sun
Ain't no time to look for clues
You get the point from Uncle Sam's loaded gun
Who be the hand that light the fuse
A take a look, take a look at my old billy goat
He used to raise all kinds of hell
He took a dose of radiation dope
A back in the barn is where he felt
Like hell
Lucy, chromosome
Lucy, superdome
What makes you think you patronizin' my old friends
After you ride in my car, car
What do you do when your oil's Mexican
OPEC boys, you went too far, too far
Lucy, superdome
Lucy, chromosome
Lucy, papadome
Lucy, sing the song
Dig it up
Live it up
A dig it up
Live it up
Look out!
- Credits
- L. Melrose/J. Bennet/W. Gillum
- Length
- 4:01
- First known play
- 1979-07-02
- Most recent known play
- 2003-12-12
- Total known full plays
- 39
- Total known partial plays
- 57
I got a reefer headed woman
She fell right down from the sky
I got a reefer headed woman
She fell right down from the sky
Well, I gots to drink me a two fifths of whiskey
Just to get half as high
When the good Lord made that woman
He sure went to town
Ooh, when the good Lord made that woman
He sure went to town
Well, when he was feelin' high
He sure should have been feelin' low
Oh Mr. Perry!
I got a reefer headed woman
Lord, she fell right down from the sky
Got a reefer headed woman
She fell right down from the sky
Lord, I gots to drink me two fifths of whiskey
Just to get, just to get, half as high
- Credits
- Tyler/Perry
- Length
- 2:58
- First known play
- 1978-12-05
- Most recent known play
- 1995-11-10
- Total known full plays
- 123
Flatbush boy cruisin' Sheepshead Bay
His boardwalk mama just a sniff away
Underground DMT, ridin' thunder train
The Coney Island white fish boy is on the run again
Ooh, runnin' with the pack
Ooh, and never lookin' back
Ooh, knows just where he's been
That Coney Island white fish boy's been there and back again
Sixteen years with his boardwalk queen
And at steeplechase, she used to wet his dreams
She combs her hair, that flamin' jewel
Streaked with Clorox bleach
Coney gettin' down and dirty
Snortin' up the beach
And she'd be screamin' Coney
And she'd be dreamin' Coney
Go get 'em Coney
Coney
Bone To Bone screamin'
Coney
She be screamin'
Coney
In town
Get back in town
Get back, a get down
Get back in town
Coney
She'd be screamin'
Coney
Best believe it
Coney
- Credits
- K. Relf/J. McCarty/J. Page
- Length
- 3:34
- First known play
- 1970-11-06
- Most recent known play
- 2007-07-07
- Total known full plays
- 9
- Total known partial plays
- 1
- Total known medley plays
- 1
When will the clouds all blow it away
When will the good people have their say
Now I hope you're still around to see the day
Take a while, think about it
Take a while, think about it
Take a while, think about it
Who's gonna tell what is up or down
Who can be the king or be the clown
Then climb your tree, take a look around
Take a while, think about it
Take a while, think about it
Take a while, think about it
Circles of life, an infinite plane
That which is now, will be again
Who can decide who is insane
Take a while, think about it
Take a while, think about it
Take a while, think about it
- Credits
- Tyler
- Length
- 4:14
- Additional Personnel
- Richie Supa (Guitars), Neil Thompson (Electric Guitar)
- Total known full plays
- 0
- Total known partial plays
- 3
Hush-a-bye my baby soft and new
Ooh, loveliness, gypsy dance in the rain
Hush-a-bye my baby what you do
Oooh, the baby cry
The wind she's callin your name
Mia
Mia
Mia
Mia
Where you came from you ain't alone
Live and loved from the old jaw bone
Oh, don't you cry you're home sweet home
Rock-a-bye sweet lady gypsy blue
Ooh, the nightingale's singin' her song in the rain
Hush-a-bye sweet lady, soft and new
Oooh, don't you cry,
The wind she's a screamin' your name
Mia
Mia
Mia
Mia
Come too soon that sunny day
You give your heart away
No divorcee, or repouise
Mia