Vol.1/Traveling Wilburys

Vol.1/Traveling Wilburys
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Handle With Care
(words and music:Traveling Wilburys)

Verse 1:
Been beat up and battered 'round
Been sent up, and I've been shot down
You're the best thing that I've ever found
Handle me with care

Verse 2:
Reputations changeable
Situations tolerable
Baby, you're adorable
Handle me with care

Chorus:
I'm so tired of being lonely
I still have some love to give
Won't you show me that you really care

Bridge:
Everybody's got somebody to lean on
Put your body next to mine, and dream on

Verse 3:
I've been fobbed off, and I've been fooled
I've been robbed and ridiculed
In day care centers and night schools
Handle me with care

Verse 4:
Been stuck in airports, terrorized
Sent to meetings, hypnotized
Overexposed, commercialized
Hand me with care

(To chorus:)
(To bridge:)

Verse 5:
I've been uptight and made a mess
But I'll clean it up myself, I guess
Oh, the sweet smell of success
Handle me with care

Verse 6: etc.
(Instrumental solo ad.lib.)


Dirty World
(words:Traveling Wilburys, misic:Bob Dylan)

Verse 1:
He love your sexy body, he loves your dirty mind
He loves when you hold him when you grab him from behind
Oh baby, you're such a pretty thing
I can't wait to introduce you to the other members of my gang

Verse 2:
You don't need no wax job, you're smooth enough for me
If you need you oil changed I'll do it for you free
Oh baby, the pleasure would be all mine
If you let me drive your pickup truck and park it where the
 sun don't shine

Verse 3:
Every time he touches you his hair stands up on end
His legs begin to quiver and his mind begins to bend
Oh baby, you're such a tasty treat
But I'm under doctor's orders, I'm afraid to overeat

Verse 4:
He love your sense of humor, your disposition too
There's absolutely nothing that he don't love about you
Oh baby, I'm on my hands and knees
Life would be so simple if I only had you to please

Coda:
Oh baby, turn around and say goodbye
You go to the airport now and I'm going home to cry

Chorus:
He loves your...
Electric dumplings
Red bell peppers
Fuel injection
Service charge
Five-speed gearbox
Long indurance
Quest for junk food
Big refrigerator
Trembling wilbury
Marble earrings
Porky curtains
Power steering
Bottled water
Parts and services

Bridge:
Dirty world, a dirty world, it's a ...ing dirty world


Rattled
(words:Traveling Wilburys, misic:Jeff Lynne)

Verse 1:
I get rattled every time we meet
I get rattled even in my sleep
I get rattled, baby, over you

Verse 2:
I get twisted, I get turned around
I get twisted, and I'm up then I'm down
I get twisted, baby, over you

Chorus:
Well, baby, baby, baby won't you save one night for me
Baby, baby, baby is there something wrong with you
Baby, baby, baby this is out of my control
It may look like nothing's wrong but deep down in my soul
I'm twisted - shaken - rattled
I get rattled, baby, over you

Instrumental interlude:

(To chorus:)

Verse 3:
I get shaken, I'm torn up by the roots
Yeah, I'm shakin', way down in my boots
I get rattled, baby, over you
I get rattled, baby, over you

Rattled, baby, over you


Last Night
(words:Traveling Wilburys, misic:Tom Petty, Roy Orbison)

Verse 1:
She was there at the bar, she heard my guitar
She was long and tall, she was the queen of them all
Last night, thinking about last night
Last night, thinking about last night

Verse 2:
She was dark and discreet, she was light on her feet
We went up to her room and she lowered the boom
Last night, thinking about last night
Last night, thinking about last night

Bridge:
Down below they danced and sang in the street
While up above the walls were steaming with heat
Last night, thinking about last night
Last night, thinking about last night

Verse 3:
I was feeling no pain, feeling good in my brain
I looked in her eyes, they were full of surprise
Last night, talking about last night
Last night, talking about last night

Bridge 2:
I asked her to marry me she smiled and pulled out a knife
The party's just beginning she said, it's your money or you life
Last night, talking about last night
Last night, talking about last night

Verse 4:
Now I'm back at the bar, she went a little too far
She done me wrong, all I got is this song
Last night, thinking about last night
Last night, thinking about last night


Not Alone Any More
(words:Traveling Wilburys, misic:Roy Orbison)

Verse 1:
You always said that I'd be back again
That I'd come running to you in the end
I thought that you were on your own
And now I find you're not alone

Chorus:
I'll see you through the rain
Through the heartache and pain
It hurts like never before
You're not alone any more

Verse 2:
You always said that I would know someday
Just how it feels when your love walks away
I let you down I let you go
I lost you, how was I to know

(To chorus:)

Verse 3:
I never knew I could feel this way
I never could see past yesterday
You feel that everything is gone
I feel it too, you're not alone

(To chorus:)


Congratulations
(words:Traveling Wilburys, misic:Bob Dylan)

Chorus 1:
Congratulations for breaking my heart
Congratulations for tearing it all apart
Congratulations you finally did succeed
Congratulations for leaving me in need

Verse 1:
This morning I looked out my window and found
A bluebird singing but there was no one around
At night I lay alone in my bed
With an image of you goin' around in my head

Chorus 2:
Congratulations for bringing me down
Congratulations now I'm sorrow bound
Congratulations you got a good deal
Congratulations how good you must feel

Verse 2:
I guess that I must have loved you more than I ever knew
My would is empty now cause it don't have you
And if I had just one more chance to wind your heart again
I would do things differently but what's the use to pretend

Chorus 3:
Congratulations for making me wait
Congratulations now it's too late
Congratulations you came out on top
Congratulations you never did know when to stop

Tag:
Congratulations


Heading For The Light(words and music:Traveling Wilburys)

Verse 1:
I've wandered around with nothing more than time on my hands
I was lost in the night with no sight of you
And at times it was so blue and lonely
Heading for the light

Verse 2:
Been close to the edge, hanging by my fingernails
I've rolled and I've tumbled through the roses and the thorns
And I couldn't see the sign that warned me, I'm
Heading for the light

Bridge 1:
Ooh - I didn't see that big black cloud hanging over me
And when the rain came down I was nearly drowned
I didn't know the mess I was in

Verse 3:
My shoes are wearing out from walking down this same highway
I don't see nothing new but I feel a lot of change
And I get the strangest feeling, as I'm
Heading for the light

Verse 4:
(Instrumental solo and ad.lib.)

Bridge 2:
Ooh - my hands were tired
Jokers and fools on either side
But still I kept on till the worst had gone
Now I see the hole I was in

(Repeat verse 3)

Verse 6:
I see the sun ahead, I ain't never looking back
All the dreams are coming true as I think of you
Now there's nothing in the way to stop me
Heading for the light

Tag:
Now there's nothing in the way to stop me
Heading for the light


Margarita
(words:Traveling Wilburys, misic:Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty)

Margarita, ah
Margarita, ah
Ooh

Verse 1:
It was in Pittsburgh late one night
I lost my hat, got into a fight
I rolled and tumbled till I saw the light
Went to the big apple, took a bite

Verse 2:
Still the sun went down your way
Down from the blue into the gray
Where I stood I saw you walk away
You danced away

Coda:
I asked her what we're gonna do tonight
She said "Cahuenga Langa-Langa-Shoe Box Soup"
We better keep tryin' till we get it right
Tala mala sheela jaipur dhoop

Verse 3:
She wrote a long letter on short piece of paper
Oh margarita don't stay away too long
Come on home
Oh margarita don't say you will when you won't
Margarita


Tweeter And The Monkey Man
(words:Traveling Wilburys, misic:Bob Dylan)

Verse 1:
Tweeter and the Monkey Man were hard up for cash
They stayed up all night selling cocaine and hash
To an undercover cop who had a sister named Jan
For reasons unexplained she loved the Monkey Man

Tweeter was a boy scout before she went to Vietnam
And found out the hard way nobody gives a damn
They knew that they found freedom just across the Jersey Line
So they hopped into a stolen car took Highway 99

Chorus:
And the walls came down all the way to hell
Never saw them when they're standing
Never saw them when they fell

Verse 2:
The undercover cop never liked the Monkey Man
Even back in childhood he wanted to see him in the can
Jan got married at fourteen to a rackateer named Bill
She made secret calls to the Monkey Man from a mansion on the hill

It was out on thunder road - Tweeter at the wheel
They crashed into paradise - they could hear them tires squeal
The undercover cop pulled up and said "Everyone of you's a liar
If you don't surrender now it's gonna go down to the wire

(To chorus:)

Verse 3:
An ambulance rolled up - a state trooper close behind
Tweeter took his gun away and messed up his mind
The undercover cop was left tied up to a tree
Near the souvenir stand by the old abandoned factory

Next day the undercover cop was hot in pursuit
He was taking the whole thing personal
He didn't care about the loot
Jan had told him many times it was you to me who taught
In Jersey anything's legal as long as you don't get caught

(To chorus:)

Verse 4:
Someplace by Rahway prison they ran out of gas
The undercover cop had cornered them said "Boy, you didn't
 think that this could last"
Jan jumped out of bed said "There's someplace I gotta go"
She took a gun out of the drawer and said "It's best if you don't know"

The undercover cop was found face down in a field
The monkey man was on the river bridge using Tweeter as a shield
Jan said to the Monkey Man "I'm not fooled by Tweeter's curl
I knew him long before he ever became a Jersey girl"

(To chorus:)

Verse 5:
Now the town of Jersey City is quieting down again
I'm sitting in a gambling club called the Lion's Den
The TV set been blown up, every bit of it is gone
Ever since the nightly news show that the Monkey Man was on

I guess I'll to to Florida and get myself some sun
There ain't no more opportunity here, everything's been done
Sometime I think of Tweeter, sometime I think of Jan
Sometime I don't think about nothing but the Monkey Man

(To chorus:)


End Of The Line
(words and music:Traveling Wilburys)

Chorus 1:
Well it's all right, riding around in the breeze
Well it's all right, if you live the life you please
Well it's all right, doing the best you can
Well it's all right, as long as you lend a hand

Verse 1:
You can sit around and wait for the phone to ring
Waiting for someone to tell you everything
Sit around and wonder what tomorrow will bring
Maybe a diamond ring

Chorus 2:
Well it's all right, even if they say you're wrong
Well it's all right, sometimes you gotta be strong
Well it's all right, As long as you got somewhere to lay
Well it's all right, everyday is Judgment Day

Verse 2:
Maybe somewhere down the road aways
You'll think of me, wonder where I am these days
Maybe somewhere down the road when somebody plays
Purple haze

Chorus 3:
Well it's all right, even when push comes to shove
Well it's all right, if you got someone to love
Well it's all right, everything'll work out fine
Well it's all right, we're going to the end of the line

Verse 3:
Don't have to be ashamed of the car I drive
I'm glad to be here, happy to be alive
It don't matter if you're by my side
I'm satisfied

Chorus 4:
Well it's all right, even if you're old and grey
Well it's all right, you still got something to say
Well it's all right, remember to live and let live
Well it's all right, the best you can do is forgive

Chorus 5:
Well it's all right, riding around in the breeze
Well it's all right, if you live the life you please
Well it's all right, even if the sun don't shine
Well it's all right, we're going to the end of the line


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