Night Moves lyrics

by Earl Randle and Willie Mitchell
If the sun
Ain't shining bright
And the moon the moon
Won't shine for you tonight
If the stars in the sky gone away
And you feel
Feelin' real low down today
If life gets hard to understand
And the whole thing is getting out of hand
Come to poppa
Come see your poppa
If you need a pacifier
Call me anytime
I'll try to be your satisfier
If you feel

Here comes old Rosie she's looking mighty fine
Here comes hot Nancy she's steppin' right on time
There go the street lights bringin on the night
Here come the men faces hidden from the light
All through the shadows they come and they go
With only one thing in common
They got the fire down below

Here comes the rich man in his big long limousine

I remember standing on the corner at midnight
Trying to get my courage up
There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown
I loved to watch her do her stuff
Through the long lonely nights she filled my sleep
Her body softly swaying to that smoky beat
Down on Mainstreet

In the pool halls, the hustlers and the losers
I used to watch 'em through the glass

by Young Jessie and Sam Ling
I'm gonna tell you a story 'bout Mary Lou
You know the kind of woman make a fool of you
She make a young man itch
She man an old man fart
The way she took my money was a crying shame
Mary Lou she took my watch and chain
Mary Lou she took my diamond ring
Mary Lou she took the keys to my cadillac car
Jumped in my kitty and drove off far

I was a little too tall
Could've used a few pounds
Tight pants points hardly reknown
She was a black-haired beauty with big dark eyes
And points all her own sitting way up high
Way up firm and high

Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy
Out in the back seat of my '60 Chevy
Workin' on mysteries without any clues
Workin' on our night moves

So you're a little bit older and a lot less bolder
Than you used to be
So you used to shake 'em down
But now you stop and think about your dignity
So now sweet sixteens turned thirty-one
You get to feelin' weary when the work days done
Well all you got to do is get up and into your kicks
If you're in a fix
Come back baby
Rock and roll never forgets
You better get yourself a partner

No matter what you think you pull
you'll find it's not enough

No matter who you think you know
you won't get through.
It's a given L.A. law
someone's faster on the draw

No matter where you hide
I'm comin' after you.

No matter how the race is run
it olways ends the same

Another room without a view awaits downtown.
You can shake me for a while
live it up in style

You always won everytime you placed a bet
You're still damn good
No one's gotten to you yet
Everytime they were sure they had you caught
You were quicker than they thought
You'd just turn your back and walk
You always said
The cards would never do you wrong
The trick you said
was never play the game too long
A gambler's share
The only risk that you would take

On a long and lonesome highway
East of Omaha
You can listen to the engine
moanin' out his one note song
You can think about the woman
or the girl you knew the night before
But your thoughts will soon be wandering
the way they always do
When you're ridin' sixteen hours
and there's nothin' much to do
And you don't feel much like ridin',
you just wish the trip was through

Here I am

She packed up her bags and she took off down the road

Left me here stranded with the bills she owed

She gave me a false address

Took off with my American Express

Sunspot Baby

She sure had me way outguessed

She left me here stranded like a dog out in the yard

Charged up a fortune on my credit card

She used my address and my name

Man that was sure unkind

Sunspot Baby