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The Lady’s Cordon Bleu – by Scott Nielsen
She’s a high toned Eastern jet setter
With a look down point of view
A Radcliff grad with a wealthy dad
Shops on Fifth avenue
(I could live on what she spends on shoes)
I’m just down home country simple
Got nothin’ I can’t lose
I’m just jeans and t-shirts
But the lady’s cordon bleu
Chorus:
But when the lights go down
And we’re flesh to flesh
We’re both equal and we both mesh
We harmonize on the same song
Sometimes we sing it all night long
She likes dressing up and dining out
On fancy French cuisine
There’s things on the menu that I can’t pronounce
And the prices, they are obscene
For me dining out is staying home
Throwing ribs on the bar-b-que
I’m just meat and potatoes
But the lady’s cordon bleu
Chorus: repeat
Her idea of a night on the town
Is an up scale East Side bar
Sipping a frozen drink through a tiny straw
And fifty bucks don’t go very far
( I could drink all night on the tip)
I do my drinking from a long neck bottle
Perched on an old bar stool
I’m just beer and Jack Daniels
But the lady’s cordon bleu
Chorus: repeat
Oh, but the lady’s cordon bleu
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Easy to Please [Nielsen]
03:29
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EASY TO PLEASE
WORDS AND MUSIC BY SCOTT NIELSEN
What you see is what you get
I’m not too hard to understand
You don’t need a Ph D
I’m not a complicated man
You can play me like a jukebox
It won’t take you very long
To find the combination that can have me for a song
Chorus:
I’m easy, easy to please I’m not too quick to walk away
I go crazy for the simple things of love
It doesn’t take too much to brighten up my day
I’m not so hard to get to know
And I come easy to love in my own way
I’m not a flashy ballroom dancer
Or the quickest wit in town
I don’t look like Robert Redford
And I’m too old to play the clown
But with love I’ve come to learn what to win and what’s to lose
I’ve been around the block and I’ve nothing left to prove.
Chorus
I don’t have a fancy come on
A sure quick pick up line
When it comes to making friends and love
I always take my time
And I don’t carry lots of baggage
Got no torches for old flames
When I’m lying next to you
I won’t be calling out their names
Chorus
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Light Sleeper [Nielsen]
04:04
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LIGHT SLEEPER by Scott Nielsen 3/27/94
On my bedside table I can here my watch tickin’
The refrigerator’s hummin’ and the sink is drippin’
It’s 3 AM and I lie awake alone
This old house talks with its creaks and groans
Whispers in the dark as the night winds moan
Another endless night filled with empty sounds
Chorus
I’m a light sleeper since you’ve been gone
I hear every bump and thump in the night
Until it turns to dawn
But it’s the sound that I don’t hear
Your gentle breathing soft and near
That keeps me tossing, turning all night long
I’m a light sleeper since you’ve been gone
Night bird singing in the yellow pine
A chorus of crickets are keeping time
A late night flight passes somewhere overhead
You left a big empty hole in the middle of my night
And I fill it with your memories til the morning light
But memories can’t fill this empty place in my bed
Chorus
Bridge
I miss the scent of your new washed hair
Your clothes draped across the chair
The warmth of your body lying there
I’m a light sleeper since you’ve been gone
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Come Hell or High Water
Lyrics & Music by Scott Nielsen
Verse 1.
Times have been tough, money’s been tight
It’s not all that we had hoped for
So the kids will not want you and I go without
We’re just keeping the wolf from the door
I’ve been showing the strain. In your eyes I see doubt
It’s putting our love to the test
But if you think I’m a quitter, if you think I could leave
Let me put your mind at rest
Chorus
Come hell or high water, win lose or draw
I’ll be here tomorrow, I’m in for the long haul
Not a fair weather lover, just when skies are blue
Come hell or high water, I’ll be here for you
Verse 2.
With all we’ve been through there’s been some give and some take
Sometimes I’ve taken more than I gave
I haven’t told you enough how you’re pulling your weight
The way that you scrimp and you save
I can’t make it all right, turn the dark into light
But one thing I know I can do
Cross my heart and hope to die
I make this promise to you
Chorus
Bridge
We’ll get through all these troubled times
That seem like endless night
It may not be tomorrow but we’ll get there all right
But I need you to believe in me the way I believe in you
So I’ll say it over and over again
Until the message gets through
Chorus
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Running With the Navajo by John Kurhajetz & Scott Nielsen
I wish I could remember what my daddy had to say
But I’ve been gone so long that it don’t matter anyway.
We’re driving back from Gallop and a bitchin’ bar room fight
My eye’s all black and blue, a hell of a night.
There’s Johnny Hawk and George, Jesus and Marie
There’s moonlight on the mountain
What more do I need?
There might be somethin’ out here that I don’t have to know
It’s midnight on the desert; I’m runnin’ with the Navajo
It’s midnight on the desert; I’m runnin’ with the Navajo
Doin’ thirty days for fightin’ down in Grants, New Mexico
I met Johnny Hawk doin’ time for bein’ Navajo
Went with him up to Ship Rock when we got out last May
I help out with the chores I help to pay my way
Chorus: repeat
Bridge:
Jesus, he’s a Zuni, but he’s Johnny Hawk’s best friend
Because he and George and Johnny all grew up in Vietnam
Marie is of Sweetwater folk up near Tuckaho
She tries to tell me what it means to be a Navajo
Chorus: repeat
I pick up my guitar if they ask me to play
They love it when I play “He stopped Loving Her Today”
Just a bunch of people making circles as we go
The sun, the stars, the moon, the Earth
All runnin’ with the Navajo
Chorus:
Johnny Hawk and George, Jesus and Marie
There’s moonlight on the mountain
What more do I need
I’’m sure there’s something out here but it’s something
I don’t know
It’s midnight on the desert and I’m runnin’ with the Navajo
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WON’T YOU PUT ME BACK ON YOUR MAILING LIST
by Scott Nielsen
The postman comes walkin’ up
To my front door
He dumped a big load of mail
Through the slot onto the floor
Those little window envelopes
The ones I hate to see
The ads in catalogs
And things that weren’t addressed to me
They were for the occupant
Or the resident
I don’t know who
But the one that wasn’t there was a letter from you
Chorus
Won’t you put me back
On your mailin’ list
Drop me a line
So I know I exist
I’ll send a self-addressed envelope
I’ll put the stamp on too
If a letter’s too much trouble
Hey, a postcard’ll do
Just a little note so
I know I’ve been missed
Won’t you put me back
On your mailin’ list
Registered and certified letters
Give me such a fright
But a little note from you
You know would fill me with delight
Maybe you forgot my zip code
Or you don’t know what to say
Perhaps you’ve been so busy
You’re waitin’ for a rainy day
Or maybe you’ve been saving ‘em up
I don’t care if they come late
Bundle ‘em all together
You can send them out bulk rate
Repeat chorus
Won’t you put me back on your mailin’ list
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Cut and Run [Nielsen]
02:47
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Stray Dog Lady [Nielsen]
03:23
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Scott Nielsen Bordentown, New Jersey
"I'm a 50's rocker and never was told how to grow up and when to grow old . . ." to quote one of my tunes and it sums me up
pretty well. I have been writing songs since the early 60's. In the 70's I wrote children's songs for Captain Kangaroo. I have been a writer and publisher ASCAP member since 1973.
I write across several genres: country, rock and adult alternative.
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