Lyr/Chords Req: Tear-Drops and Two-Steps (Jez Lowe

Subject: Tear Drops are Two Steps Away
From: WyoWoman
Date: 20 Oct 99 - 12:36 AM

re. Tear Drops are Two Steps Away
Anyone know this tune from the Black Family's recording? It's great fun, by the way.

WyoWoman

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Tear Drops are Two Steps Away
From: lamarca
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 06:11 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Tear Drops are Two Steps Away
From: John Wood
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 10:25 PM

Good you ``refreshed´´ this Lamarca,I'd missed it.
I've got this album.I'll write the text out tomorrow.
Greetings John.

Subject: Lyr Add: TEAR DROPS AND TWO-STEPS (Jez Lowe)
From: John Wood
Date: 03 Nov 99 - 05:52 AM

Hi, Wyo Woman.
Here's the text for "Tear drops" taken from the Black Brothers CD "What A Time." Yes, I said "Brothers." It is actually Shay, Michael and Martin Black's CD, though Mary and Frances are on backing vocals on some tracks.

TEAR DROPS AND TWO-STEPS
(Jez Lowe)

Some say the devil's just an angel in the dark.
Some say the devil's just a good man feeling bad.
Some say the devil's just the lads out for a lark.
Some say the devil plays the only music glad and good

But I wish my father he'd have locked and barred the door.
I wish my mother told me never take a chance.
I wish I'd never seen those feet upon the floor,
And thrown away my nights and days in such a merry dance.
Watch me rock and reel. Watch me toe and heel.
Watch me stepping out to any tune you play.
But teardrops are two steps away.
Teardrops are two steps away.

I used to watch them with my back against the wall,
In case the music took me both feet by surprise.
Then the devil whispered words to me across the hall
And I sold my soul to heel and toe with the devil in disguise.
Watch me beat and bop. Watch me spinning top.
Watch me shuffle, buck and wing and Mandalay.
But teardrops are two steps away.
Teardrops are two steps away.

Night after night, we'd trip the light across the town.
Family and friends went dashing white right out the door.
Then with my money spent, the dance soon came round,
And my partner left me and she waltzed off with the next man on the floor.
Watch me jump and jive. Watch me dip and dive.
Watch me pogo, twist, and tango night and day.
But tear-drops are two steps away.
Teardrops are two steps away.

This broken heart it surely keeps me on my toes.
It brings me down just when I think I'm on the mend.
I'm sure that she'll have music wherever she goes,
But I hope that teardrops will take two steps towards her in the end.
Watch me trip the light. Watch me dashing white.
Watch me shimmy, shake and samba and chassee.
But teardrops are two steps away.
Teardrops are two steps away.
Teardrops are two steps away.
Teardrops are two steps away.

Don't play this one myself, but they play it in the key of F

Hope this helps.
Greetings John.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Tear Drops are Two Steps Away
From: John Wood
Date: 03 Nov 99 - 05:55 AM

Damm!I missed a line breaker.SORRY!!
John.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Tear Drops are Two Steps Away
From: WyoWoman
Date: 03 Nov 99 - 10:56 AM

Bless yer little cotton socks, John. I really appreciate your doing this.

Do you know if one of the Blacks wrote it?

WW

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Tear Drops are Two Steps Away
From: John Wood
Date: 03 Nov 99 - 06:11 PM

No W.W.,the Blacks didn't write it!
The cover notes just credit JEZ LOWE as the composer/writer,without any mention of who or what he is.

Greetings John.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Tear Drops are Two Steps Away
From: Mike Robertson
Date: 03 Nov 99 - 06:25 PM

John...

Try this: Jez Lowe

-mike-

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Tear Drops are Two Steps Away
From: WyoWoman
Date: 04 Nov 99 - 01:27 AM

Thanks -- I just looked again and saw that John had written that in on the lyrics in the first place. I read too fast!

Thank you again for writing those down for us.

WW