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Music & Lyrics by Toby Soriero  

Help me baby

Help me climb over the wall

Help me baby

Help me climb over the wall

I only get one  

So you know I’ll be makin’ that call

Save me baby

Save me from endin’ it all

Save me baby

Save me like the Lord saved Paul

Life not worth livin’

Shouldn’t have takin’ the fall

Help me baby

Help me climb over the wall

Help me baby

Help me climb over the wall

Done thrown in the towel

Headin’ down that long dark hall

Soothe me baby

Soothe me till the night turns to day 

Soothe me baby

Soothe me like you do that way

Come for me now

By your side is where I wanna lay

Help me baby

Help me climb over the wall

Help me baby

Help me climb over the wall

I headin’ straight over

Not payin’ no mind how tall

Help me baby

Help me climb over the wall

Help me baby

Help me climb over the wall

Wanna see your Cadillac

And then we drive off to the ball

Music & Lyrics by Toby Soriero  

Make my mark  

Collect my pay  

Drinkin’ gin from a Tropicana bottle 

On a hot summer day  

Married 15 years 

To my wife 

She been married to me 

Her whole god damn life 

Got these brass city blues 

Don’t know what I’m gonna do 

Jive

Jive ass jive

I got guns

Keep me safe

Shot a man dead

Right in the face

I get stoned

Cops give chase

Coke and drink

Sends me inta space

Got these brass city blues

Now what about you

Jive

Jive ass jive

Woman I love

Don’t love me

Threw her out the door

And took away the key

She got a new man

Dress real fine

Don’t matte’ to me

When I’m drinkin’ cheap wine

Got these brass city blues

Think I might sue

Jive

Jive ass jive

I broke and poor

Got bills to pay

Sweat all night

Sweat all day

High on a hill

It stand real tall

Cross of steel

My name it calls

Got these brass city blues

Bet you do too 

Music & Lyrics by Toby Soriero  

Slap that devil down

Slap him down to the ground

Slap that devil down

Slap him all over town

Been lost for so long

But now I been found

Slap that devil down

Slap him with all your might

Slap that devil down

Devil don’t fight a fair fight

Been standin’ in the cold

Out in the cold dark night

Gimme me once

Gimme me twice

Gimme most every vice    

Chase me up

Chase me down

Chase that Devil all aroun’ 

Gonna be a long,  long walk down

Slap that devil down

Gonna climb that hill

Slap that devil down

Slap him with all your will

Been tryin’ so damn hard

Goin' in for the kill

Gimme me once

Gimme me twice

Gimme most every vice    

Chase me up

Chase me down

Chase that Devil all aroun’ 

Gonna be a long, long walk down

Gimme me once, gimme me twice 

Gimme most every vice  

Chase me up, chase me down

Chase that Devil all aroun’

Slap that devil down

Slap him outta town 

Music & Lyrics by Toby Soriero  

Met a leather man

On a cloudy day

Just walkin’ down the road 

Said he’d been here once

But didn’t stay 

He was carryin’ a heavy load  

We found a rock  to rest on

And watched the setting sun

I wondered how long it’d  be 

‘fore I heard him sing his song 

He offered me

His rusty flask

Filled with yesterday’s wine

I asked him why

He roams about

How I see him time to time 

He took a drink then bowed his head

Before he told me this 

A house just ain’t a home

When you live a life that roams 

It’s hard to walk in shifting sand

When you find yourself in no man’s land   

But when you’re old and when you’re young

Sometimes, ya just got to, ya just gotta run  

Said he tried his luck

Livin’ straight

But the road was what he found

Was tempted by

The hand of fate

It comes without a sound 

And when it’s through, we’re often blue

Not much more a soul can do

How many nightfalls can you see 

How many lives were meant to be 

It’s hard to walk in shifting sand

If you’re lookin’ for a place to land  

But when you’re old and when you’re young

Sometimes, ya just got to, ya just gotta run

Told him it was time to go

He tipped his hat and wished me well 

there was one thing I oughta know 

I told him please do tell

An old man once had this to say

When you’re lookin’ for a card to play 

And he said as quite as a mouse

A stacked hand always beats a full house

Music & Lyrics by Toby Soriero  

My woman left home with a bourbon man

Now this man was real slick

My woman left home with a bourbon man

This man knew every trick

I said what you want with my woman

She ugly old and sick 

Don’t know why she left me

I always treat her right

Don’t know why she left me

I tried with all my might

She done drink me outta house and home

Passed out drunk every night

My woman left home with a bourbon man

Now I sit round all alone

My woman left home with a bourbon man

Sit ‘round by the phone

Waitin’ for that bourbon man to call

Hear him bitch and moan 

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Sun sinkin’ low

Sky gettin‘ dark

It’s been a long, long road

Not a walk in the park 

So please, baby please

Darlin’, won’t you please

Walk me home tonight

Days gettin’ short

Nights awful cold

I’m not the young man I was

Never thought I’d feel so old

So please, baby please

Darlin’, won’t you please

Walk me home tonight

Time ain’t no friend

It rolls right along

Take my hand honey

Let me sing you this song

So please, baby please

Darlin’, won’t you please

Walk me home tonight

Mistakes I made in life

Thinkin’ ‘bout them makes me blue

Next time through I’ll think twice

Hope I can do it again with you

So please, baby please

Darlin’, won’t you please

Walk me home tonight

Oh, please, baby please

Darlin’, won’t you please

Walk me home tonight 

                                                                                                                                                     Image credit: Scuba Steve

Music & Lyrics by Toby Soriero  

Winter vacation, seventy-three    

Drivin’ to Florida in a used RV   

Mom, Dad and my old dog, Big  Joe

Didn't think it snowed south of D.C.

Woke up the next morning, what did I see

A blanket of white stuff, high and low

All I could say was how could it be

That snow reached up well past my knee

Parked on I-95 with no place to go

Stuck in Carolina in two feet of snow

Campin' on the highway watchin' it blow

Met some cool folks I'd never see again

Wonder where they went, where they been

Never rains in California playin' on the radio

Even if we wanted, couldn't call for a tow

A line a cars as far as the eye could see

Plows commin’ soon? Cops said no

This was turnin’ into a real tail a woe

Folks might say just not my cup a tea

Army choppers came and went

Said give us a day, help will be sent

Eyes to sky, but notta did we see

A few days passed, folks sure we're bent

Hippies freezin’ in an old green tent

Mom thought how unlucky could we be

We waited and waited with no such luck

Was the first time I heard someone shout, WHAT THE— 

I was havin’ fun, but that’s just me

Bad news Charlie brought us updates, none of them good

Bob and his kids kept warm by burnin’ wood

Food was runnin’ low, for big old Joe

Stuck in Carolina in two feet of snow

Campin' on the highway watchin' it blow

Met some cool folks I'd never see again

Wonder where they went where they been

Our beat up RV was like the town green

People started talkin’ real mean

Sounded like things were gettin’ ready to blow

Trucker by the name of July looked under the hood

Said you got the power, breakthrough you should

That Dodge 440 V8 was RARIN’ to go

Pops put the pedal to the metal and plowed straight ahead

That old camper shot gunpowder and lead

Cleared a path right through that wall of snow

A long long time it sure has been

I’d love to do it all over again

Vacations these days just ain’t the same

Here's the moral of the story and lesson to learn

Even if you got money to burn

Travlin’ first class is awful lame

Stuck in Carolina in two feet of snow

Campin' on the highway watchin' it blow

Met some cool folks I'd never see again

Wonder where they went where they been

When hittin' the road in an old RV 

Maybe you'll meet someone

Someone . . . just like me