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Take What You Can Get
03:32
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TAKE WHAT YOU CAN GET
You don’t know why you love me
And I can’t explain to you
You don’t want to understand me
It’s all the same to you
I can’t get through at all
It’s been going on a long time
But that doesn’t help at all
I’ve been thinking that you’re all mine
Running at your every call
What a waste of time it’s been
Why don’t you go
Why don’t you leave me alone
I’ve told you so, you can go on home
End of it all I’ve got no regrets
We’ve had a ball
You take what you can get
The way I feel about you don’t help
Habit’s a hard thing to break
Have I told you how I felt
Didn’t just grab what I could take
I behaved myself with you
You made life something exciting
I’d never known before
It’s sad that we should end up fighting
Each one showing the other the door
I wondered how long it would last
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Bluegrass
02:44
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BLUEGRASS
Going back to bluegrass country
Wanna see them Kentucky hills
Gonna see some Southern women
Cotton dresses and satin frills
Can’t wait to get out of my carriage
Stand again on clean Kentucky earth
Taste again that true home cooking
Drink that moonshine alcohol so smooth
Kentucky women, they’re so good looking
Sleep again with the stars for a roof
Been wanting to come back so long
And find it’s just the same as it always was
Sit again on the creaking front porch
Watch life pass by at a steady pace
Let the forest breeze rock me gently
Any other life is such as waste
I’m never going to leave my homeland
Rest right here till they put me in the earth
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USA To Go
04:40
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USA TO GO
I was standing on the corner of a one-way street
Wondering which way to go
Policeman came up to me and asked me the time
I said that I didn’t know
Looking for the way to New Orleans
Via Walt Disney World
Flying PanAm to Dixieland, trying to find my girl
Got off the plane at JFK,
I was searched by the customs man
Took away my passport, took all my clothes
You can guess what happened then
Finally released me, got on my way
Caught a Greyhound out of town
Had a three-month Ameripass in my hand
Gonna cover a lot of ground
Couldn’t find her inNew Orleans
She’d left a letter pointing the way
Along I-10 to LA, up Interstate 5
Past Sequoia and Yosemite, onto Highway 101
Through pleasant Crescent City and Coos Bay too
Soon waving Oregon goodbye
Up into Vancouver, Washington,
Through Seattle to Vancouver BC
Caught a plane to Chicago, stayed overnight
I wish she were here with me
Went to her sister in Buffalo,
She didn’t know where she was
Suggested a cousin in Albany
It was back on the goddam bus
Cousin said she had gone back home
I caught the next plane out
Landed at Heathrow, hired a car down the M25
Off at Sunbury soon found her home
But she wasn’t there
Left for Pensacola on the noon-day plane
It really isn’t fair, here we go again . . .
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Desert Island
03:45
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DESERT ISLAND
I’d like to take you away from all this
Leave it behind, find a brand new address
A golden shoreline that’s way out of reach
And lay you on a sun-kissed beach
I’d like to get you a little sun
(You know what I mean)
Forget the world and have some fun
Romantic evenings - a starlit sky
The two of us, that’s just you and I
I’l hold you tight as the tide comes in
Hand-in-hand we’ll begin the beguine
We’ll eat bananas in an abandoned way
(You know what I mean)
Together in paradise we’ll always stay
I’ll be King in my land, on my desert island
You will be my Queen
Sun-up-in-the-sky land, no-one-wonders-why land
Life is so serene
We’ll set up home in a little grass hut
Wear seaweed suits with a Savile Row cut
You’ll do the cooking, I’ll do the clothes
In our home, anything goes
With the monkey and the parakeet
(You know what I mean)
We’ll be the happiest boys you’ll ever ever meet
I’ll be King in my land, on my desert island
You will be my Queen
Sun-up-in-the-sky land, no-one-wonders-why land
Life is so serene
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5. |
Glove Shack (reprise)
01:48
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Music by
Ian Tasker
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6. |
Stay Tonight
04:54
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STAY TONIGHT
Lying here beside you
Wondering what to do
The nearness of your body
The scent of your perfume too
Why don’t you stay here
Till the sun rises in the sky
I think that I want you
To help me get by
Holding you closer to me
Indecision far behind
And now that I know my feelings
I’m not afraid of what I might find
Why don’t you stay here
Till the sun rises in the sky
We both know we can make it If we really try
We’ve played this game before
It just didn’t work out right
We’ve gone our separate ways
Do I really want you tonight?
But what does it matter
What we both went through once before?
All I know is I want you
Tonight even more
But what does it matter
What we both went through once before?
All I know is I want you
Tonight even more
Don’t want you to go
Don’t want you to go
Stay with me tonight
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7. |
Disco Dummy
02:44
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DISCO DUMMY
You can see them ay the disco
The ones who haven’t got a chance
They move without rhythm
Ain’t got a clue how to dance
They twitch and the stumble
Fall off their feet, onto the floor
They wriggle and the fumble
Don’t their legs ever get sore
So, I can’t go to the disco
‘Cos I am one of them
Have to take me to the bistro
So I’m fat as well as lame
She’s got callouses and bunions
Where I’ve been and stamped upon her feet
Doing a Travolta
When my body and timing never meet
The stroboscopic lighting
Does’t help to hide my awkward jerks
To my humiliation
I can’t resist giving each song
the works
So, I can’t go to the disco
‘Cos I am one of them
Have to take me to the bistro
So I’m fat as well as lame
Fat and lame
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8. |
Pantechnicon Song
05:19
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PANTECHNICON SONG
In the New Year
I’m going down south
Because I have to
Leaving behind my home
Don’t want to live here now
Gotta find a future somehow
Don’t wanna stay, I don’t wanna stay
Don’t wanna stay here anymore
Don’t wanna stay, I don’t wanna stay
Don’t wanna stay here anymore
When I get there
Will it be raining
Like it is here?
Can’t afford to live anywhere
The price of beer is just sky high
People move there
I wonder why
Don’t wanna stay, I don’t wanna stay
Don’t wanna stay here anymore
Don’t wanna stay, I don’t wanna stay
Don’t wanna stay here anymore
When I get there
It will be raining
Like it is here
Leaving behind my home
Don’t want to live here now
Gotta find a future somehow
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9. |
The Girl From Tobermory
01:40
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THE GIRL FROM TOBERMORY
I met a girl from Tobermory
And waiting on tables was half of her story
I still remember the bliss of her kiss
I’ll never forget the dishy Trish Nish
Drinking Ledaig from a half-pint glass
Trish Nish was always full of high class
She showed me how to tell a good story
My dishy Trish Nish from Tobermory
She’s Fishnish’s Trish Nish
Dished up a fish at the swish Mishdish
Trish Nish from the Hotel Mishnish
I wish I could kiss the dishy Trish Nish
Well she kissed all the boys from Achnadrish
From Mornish and Quinish
And onto Treshnish
A splish of good whisky in her fish dish
Hard to keep up with the dishy Trish Nish
A tongue-twisting tale from Tobermory
And sadly that’s the end of my story
Trish Nish’s kiss was no longer bliss
And the ferry to Oban that I mustn’t miss
She’s Fishnish’s Trish Nish
Dished up a fish at the swish Mishdish
Trish Nish from the Hotel Mishnish
I have just about enough of all this
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10. |
Later Than You Think
01:23
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LATER THAN YOU THINK
We always thought there’d be something better
Something more than before
The world would always keep improving
But now I’m not so sure
There was a time before it happened
A time to hope for more
Before the world began to darken
Now we fear what’s in store
We loved and lost and tried and trusted
Kept taking it to the brink
We always thought there’d be time to sort it
But it’s later than you think
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Ian Tasker Sherborne, UK
Hi - Thank you for visiting my site.
A retired journalist from Sherborne in Dorset, the lockdown
gave me the time to finally record some of the songs I wrote decades ago - together with a few new ones.
"It's Later Than You Think" - released on 22nd September 2023 - is my second album, following on from 2021's "Losing Track Of Time"
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