Hot House lyrics

B. R. Hornsby

Cocked and ready oh here I stand
Anticipating the laying on of hands
Might be frivolous, may be profound
But it feels like deliverance going down

Hey now, come on around
The big rumble is coming down
Go tell it on the mountainside
Over the hills and across the sky
Hey now, watch out, run
Big rumble is about to come
Go tell it to the people there

Deep down in the south county

Over where the paper mill runs

Lived a man, a young country doctor

With the perfect wife and sons

Well he worked his days

And Sundays he'd pray

And nobody knew

Why the wife slowly withered away

I saw the country doctor, to ask him what

was wrong with me

He was caught unaware, accidental and devil may care

It's been a long time coming, this feeling I've got

That things'll always go your way, such a long shot

Been so deep in the hole, never thought i'd come out

Anything can happen, I know that now

One slip, one fall

A turn of the head can change it all

A step ahead, a step behind

A blink of an eye at the wrong time

North, South, East and West

We've lived around here most all of our lives

Did most anything we wanted to do

We will celebrate every 4th of July

Just a little tamer than most of the rest of us do

Don't light a match, don't play with fire

Pull down easy on the gas lighter

There's a shelter down at the veteran's hall

Living in the shadow of the hot house ball

We can dance in the streets any night or day

So nice to be here

With all you good people

Is anybody listening

To what we're doing tonight

Could you give us a chance

While you hit the sauce

Might try a little flash up here

Just to get oursleves across

Hit it

Let the spirit linger

Get up

And do the spider fingers

I could show you on a table

I could show you on a chair

I's best shown on the black and whites

I heard you say that tonight's the night

You say there's a party going on

I'm in the door lik an old 78 side

And I hear 'em out hitting on a Coleman song

My friend John with a mirror and spoon

Got a belt and a mainline scene

A couple getting off in the back room

Someone's collecting money for the friend in need

Sounds like a good time, a ball to me

The scene is set, everybody's in place

Two chairs filled for every five gone to waste

Pantsuit girl gives me a nasty gaze

She says play that on your own time

Walk to the bandstand blow my horn

Nobody knows what we're really here for

Let's take it out hard till they show us the door

It's us against them tonight

Play the changes

Make the changes

Hear the changes

Someone's dancing on the table

Someone's got an old book in the back

Some old jocks are sitting round their neighbors

Exaggerating their stats

Again

There's Mr. D.E. in the corner

Dancing with Miss Virginia former

I didn't think I'd really have a good time

But i don't remember you looking so fine

It's been a long dark night alright

I've been running on a low love light

Parking lot's full, the crowd's here

All to see and hear the food and beverage seer

Bumpin' time, everyone side to side

Left allemand and do-pah-so time

Here she comes, coming round the bend

Been to the bathroom and she's going back again

Just to give a good cold shoulder next time

Been around town and we're going again

Hallelujah when you get to the end

My name is Vernon James and I live to the south of town

I work my window watching the women go round and round

Some people come here for love

Some people come for fantasy

When two in the morning comes round

My baby comes around for me

Someone come, come my someone

Take the clouds from my eyes, my one

I know that sometime soon

One day we'll walk in the sun

She walked into town in a long white gown

And the band played on with no one around

And the rice was gone oh hours ago

And the white wheeled limosine's standing alone

Well they met at the club where the brasses blow

Where the wine did flow oh he moved so slow

But finally one night as the wind stood still

He got up the nerve and she said "I will"

Cocked and ready oh here I stand

Anticipating the laying on of hands

Might be frivolous, may be profound

But it feels like deliverance going down

Hey now, come on around

The big rumble is coming down

Go tell it on the mountainside

Over the hills and across the sky

Hey now, watch out, run

Big rumble is about to come

Go tell it to the people there