Rock `n Roll

"I love Rock N Roll

So put another dime in the jukebox baby

I love Rock N roll

So c'mon take your time and dance with me!"  by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

We kicked off our daily dose of Rock and Roll with this song.  We gathered in Carnegie Hall, or even on the patio!  Here are some pictures of the Hometown villagers helping out with the songs, Marianne's Brain Train leading the songs (go Mike!) and the Hometown Rock n Roll Band (Archie, Duane, Luke and Heidi)

The Setlist

1. "8 Eight Days a Week" by the Beatles

2. "Country Roads" by John Denver

3. "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Poison

4. "California" by Phantom Planet

5. "Summer of '69" by Bryan Adams

6. "Lemon Tree" by Fool's Garden 

7. "Let Me Go" by Cake

8. "Follow Me" by Uncle Cracker

9. "Leaving On a Jetplane" by John Denver

 1. Eight Days a Week

Ooh I need your love babe
Guess you know it's true
Hope you need my love babe
Just like I need you
Hold me, love me, hold me, love me
Ain't got nothin' but love babe
Eight days a week.

Love you every day girl
Always on my mind
One thing I can say girl
Love you all the time
Hold me, love me, hold me, love me
Ain't got nothin' but love babe
Eight days a week

Eight days a week
I love you
Eight days a week
Is not enough to show I care

Ooh I need your love babe
Guess you know it's true
Hope you need my love babe
Just like I need you
Hold me, love me, hold me, love me
Ain't got nothin' but love babe
Eight days a week

Eight days a week
I love you
Eight days a week
Is not enough to show I care

Love you every day girl
Always on my mind
One thing I can say girl
Love you all the time
Hold me, love me, hold me, love me
Ain't got nothin' but love babe
Eight days a week
Eight days a week
Eight days a week

2. Country Roads

Almost heaven, west Virginia
Blue ridge mountains, Shenandoah river
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze

Country roads, take me home
To the place, I belong
West virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads

All my memories, gather ´round her
Miner´s lady, stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye

Country roads, take me home
To the place, I be-long
West Virginia, mountain mamma
Take me home, country roads

I hear her voice, in the mornin´ as she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
And drivin´ down the road I get a feeling
That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday

Country roads, take me home
To the place, I be-long
West Virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads

3. Every Rose Has Its Thorn

We both wait silently still
In the dead of the night.
Although we both wait close together
We feel miles apart inside
Was it somethin' I said or somethin' I did?
Did my words not come out right?
Though I tried not to hurt you
Though I tried
But I guess that's why they say

 Chorus:
Every  rose has its thorn
Just like every night has its dawn
Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song
Every rose has its thorn

 Yea it does

I listen to your favorite song
Playin' on the radio
Hear the DJ say love's a game of
Easy come and easy go
But I wonder does he know
Has he ever felt like this
And I know you'd be here right now
If I could have let you know somehow

I guess

Chorus

 Though it's been awhile now
I can still feel so much pain
Like a knife that cuts you
The wound heals, but the scar, that scar remains
I know I could have saved our love that night
If I'd known what to say
Instead of makin' up
We both made our separate ways

Now I hear you've found somebody new
And that I never meant that much to you
To hear that tears me up inside
And to see you cuts me like a knife

 Chorus

4. California

5. Summer of 69

I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it 'til my fingers bled
It was summer of '69

Me and some guys from Scuol
Had a Band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit and Joey got married
I shualda known we'd never get far

Oh when I look back now
That summer seems to last forever
And if I had the choice
Ya - I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life

(CHORUS)

Ain't no use in complainin'
When you got a job to do
Spent my evenin's down at the drive in
And that's when I met you

Standin on a mama's porch
You told me that you'd wait forever
Oh and when you held my hand
I knew that it was no or never
Those were the best days of my life

(Chorus) Back in Summer of '69

Man we were killin' time
We were young and restless
We needed to unwind
I guess nothin' can last forever, no

And now the times are changin'
Look at everything that's come and gone
Somethimes when I play that old six-string
I think about ya wonder what went wrong

Standin' on a mama's porch
You told me it would last forever
Oh the way you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life

(Chorus) Back in summer of '69

I'm sitting here in the boring room
It's just another rainy Sunday afternoon
I'm wasting my time
I got nothing to do
I'm hanging around
I'm waiting for you
But nothing ever happens and I wonder

I'm driving around in my car
I'm driving too fast
I'm driving too far
I'd like to change my point of view
I feel so lonely
I'm waiting for you
But nothing ever happens and I wonder

I wonder how
I wonder why
Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky
And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree
I'm turning my head up and down
I'm turning turning turning turning turning around
And all that I can see is just another lemon-tree

I'm sitting here
I miss the power
I'd like to go out taking a shower
But there's a heavy cloud inside my head
I feel so tired
Put myself into bed
Well, nothing ever happens and I wonder

Isolation is not good for me
Isolation I don't want to sit on the lemon-tree

I'm steppin' around in the desert of joy
Baby anyhow I'll get another toy
And everything will happen and you wonder

I wonder how
I wonder why
Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky
And all that I can see is just another lemon-tree
I'm turning my head up and down
I'm turning turning turning turning turning around
And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree
And I wonder, wonder

I wonder how
I wonder why
Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky
And all that I can see, and all that I can see, and all that I can see
Is just a yellow lemon-tree

When she walks
She swings her arms, instead of her hips
When she talks she moves her mouth, instead of her lips
Ive waited for her for so long
Ive waited for her for so long
Ive wondered if I could hang on
Ive wondered if I could hang on

Let me go, she said
Let me go, she said
Let me go and I will want you more
Let me go, let me go
Let me go and I will want you

When she wants
She wants the sun instead of the moon
When she sees
She sees the stars inside of her room
Ive waited for her for so long
Ive waited for her for so long
Ive wondered if I could hang on
Ive wondered if I could hang on

Let me go, she said
Let me go, she said
Let me go and I will want you more
Let me go, she said
Let me go
Let me go, and I will want you

Let me go, she said
Let me go, she said
Let me go, she said
Let me go, let me go

 8. Follow Me

You don't know how you met me you don't know why
you can't turn around and say goodbye
all you know is when I'm with you I make you free
and swim through your veins like a fish in the sea
I'm singing

Follow me everything is alright
I'll be the one to tuck you in at night
and if you want to leave I can guarantee
you won't find nobody else like me

I'm not worried 'bout the ring you wear
'cause as long as no one knows then nobody can care
you're feeling guilty and I'm well aware
but you don't look ashamed and baby I'm not scared
I'm singing

Follow me everything is alright
I'll be the one to tuck you in at night

Won't give you money I can't give you the sky
you better off if you don't ask why
I'm not the reason that you go astray
and we'll be alright if you don't ask me to stay

Follow me everything is alright
I'll be the one to tuck you in at night
and if you want to leave I can guarantee
you won't find nobody else like me

You don't know how you met me you don't know why
you can't turn around and say goodbye
all you know is when I'm with you I make you free
and swim through your veins like a fish in the sea
I'm singing

Follow me everything is alright
I'll be the one to tuck you in at night
and if you want to leave I can guarantee
you won't find nobody else like me
I'm singing

Follow me everything is alright
I'll be the one to tuck you in at night
and if you want to leave I can guarantee
you won't find nobody else like me
I'm singing

Follow me everything is alright
I'll be the one to tuck you in at night
and if you want to leave I can guarantee
you won't find nobody else like me

 9. Leaving on a Jetplane

All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go, I'm standing here

outside your door,

I hate to wake you up to say good-bye.

But the dawn is breaking, it's early morn, the taxi's waiting

He's blowing his horn.

Already I'm so lonesome I could die.

So kiss me and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me,

hold me like you'll never let me go.

'Cause I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back

again. Oh, babe, I hate to go.


There's so many times I've let you down, so many times I've

played around,


I tell you now they don't mean a thing.

Every place I go I'll think of you, every song I sing I'll sing

for you,

when I come back, I'll bring your wedding ring.

So kiss me and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me,

hold me like you'll never let me go.

Cause I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back

again. Oh, babe, I hate to go.

Now the time has come to leave you, one more time let me kiss

you,

then close your eyes, I'll be on my way.

Dream about the days to come when I won't have to leave

alone,

about the times I won't have to say:

kiss me and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me, hold

me like you'll never let me go.

'Cause I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back

again. Oh, babe, I hate to go.

I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again.

Oh, babe, I hate to go.