James Taylor

"Rock and Roll Me Over"
(Written and performed by James Taylor, ca. 1975)

I spent so many years
In a vale of quiet tears
There was a hole inside my life
But then you filled it

There were so many late night calls
Lights going out at the end of the hall
You came all over my heart
And then you killed it

Just last night they gave you breakfast
And then they told me you were gone
Heading for those country roads
And a new place in the sun

So, just rock and roll me over, baby
Rock and roll me over
Rock and roll me over, baby
Rock and roll me over


James Taylor

"Jelly Belly Baby Maybe"
(one reviewer called James Taylor's 1975 album track "rock and roll about drugs and sex.")

Jelly Belly Baby Maybe
Comin' with a truck of gravy
Wrap me honey, be my baby
Your sweet saddle gonna save me

I'm a man with a plan, baby
But something's in the way
I've got an ache, but I've got a bag
Narcotics callin' me, say hey

Who's the muse?
I gotta choose
Which one to fuse
Don't wanna lose

Jelly Belly Baby Maybe
Comin' with a truck of gravy
Wrap me honey, be my baby
Your sweet saddle gonna save me

From the bathroom stalls
to these hospital walls,
I'm finally making my peace
I made the scene,
now I'm comin' clean
So I can ride you free-flowin' beast

Jelly Belly Baby Maybe
Comin' with a truck of gravy
Wrap me honey, be my baby
Your sweet saddle gonna save me

Who's the muse?
I gotta choose
Which one to fuse
Don't wanna lose

Jelly Belly Baby Maybe
Comin' with a truck of gravy
Wrap me honey, be my baby
Your sweet booty's gonna save me

Neil Young:

"Sugarbush Woman"

[Three-chord power-chord grinding guitar intro]

Out in the woods by a lake near the river
She waits on top of a mountain
She’s got a sweet sweet sweet syrup to deliver
Big maples down by the fountain

She’s got hair that looks like Sacajawea
Her jacket has some sort of fringe
In the chapel she saw me and walked up to me-uh
And my fillings started to twinge

She’s my sugarbush sugarbush sugarbush woman
She’s my sugarbush sugarbush girl
She’s my sugarbush sugarbush sugarbush woman
She’s my sugarbush sugarbush girl

[One-note guitar solo, four minutes in duration]

Now I’m just an old kid, but I’m heading south
Hope I can deliver the lumber
In the starlight her candy just melts in my mouth
Ontario, here comes my cucumber

She’s my sugarbush sugarbush sugarbush woman
She’s my sugarbush sugarbush girl
She’s my sugarbush sugarbush sugarbush woman
She’s my sugarbush sugarbush girl

Neil Young:

"Pilgrim's Progress"
(from Neil Young's brief 'vegetarian period')

Pilgrim landed on the shores of fire
Pilgrim kicked the tires on the coast of California
Pilgrim killed the turkey
and hung him on the wire

They killed the sow
they killed the pecker
they killed the turkey
on the blood's red ground

Hey, Pilgrim -
leave those bloods alone!

Pilgrim burnt the land in the furnaces of iron
Pilgrim and the Aggies, they built a funeral pyre
then they threw in the gobblers
threw in the Indians too

They killed the sow
they killed the pecker
they killed the turkey
on the blood's red ground

Hey, Pilgrim -
leave those bloods alone!
Leave those bloods alone!
Leave those bloods alone!
Hey, Columbus,
leave those bloods alone!