Joe Bonamassa

rising
At all places around
Where the fifty men and children, come to sink and drown
Now we’re looking at New Orleans, where the crest stood high

Nobody said it was rising, one more time silver lie
Should move up much higher, before I sink and die

2. Bridge to Better Days
You sit in your big house baby
you drive your fancy car
you treat me like I'm not there
but I guess that's who you are
I'm on the bridge to better days
better days are coming now
tired of asking all my friends
please help me once more
this old life that I'm leading
got me down the floor
I'm on the bridge to better days
better days are coming now
better days are coming now
better days are coming now
gonna be a matter of time
you know the sun will rise
used to say it was in my head
I was led along instead
I'm on the bridge to better days
better days are coming now
better days are coming now
better days are coming now
ohhhhhhh

3. Asking Around for You
If i get to heaven
the first thing I'll do
before I meet my maker
I'm gonna ask around for you

all of heaven gotta know
your beauty ever true
I'll tap an angel on the shoulder
and I'll be asking around for you

I'm sure you've found a place up there
where we all can sit and talk a while
play some cards and drink black coffee
How I'd love to see you smile

If I get to heaven
and I'm praying that I do
I'll be the first thing I do
I'll tap an angel on the shoulder
and I'll be asking around for you

I'm sure you found a place up there
where we all can sit and talk a while
play some cards and drink black coffee
I'd love to see you smile

If I get to heaven now
oh I'm praying that I do
I'll be the first thing I do
I'll tap an angel on the shoulder
and I'll be asking around for you
I'll tap an angel on the shoulder
and I'll be asking around for you

4. So Many Roads (Otis Rush cover)
So many roads
So many trains to ride

So many roads
So many trains to ride

I'm gonna find my baby
Before I'll be satisfied

I was standing at my window
When I heard that whistle blow

I was standing at my window
When I heard that whistle blow

I thought it was a straight line
But it was B & O

It was a mean old fireman
And a cruel engineer

It was a mean old fireman
And a cruel engineer

That took my baby
And left me standing here

So many roads
So many trains to ride

So many roads
So many trains to ride

I'm gonna find my baby
Before I'll be satisfied

5. I Don't Believe (Bobby Bland cover)
I don't believe, I don't believe you'd let me down
I don't believe, I don't believe you'd let me down
Yes, when I need you baby, honey, you're always around
I don't believe, I don't believe you'd let me down
I don't believe, I don't believe you'd let me down
Yes, when I need you baby, honey, you're always around

I don't believe, I don't believe you got somebody else
I don't believe, I don't believe you got somebody else
Yes, if you didn't want me, baby, honey, you left me on the shelf

When I was hungry, you gave me food
You treated me like a king, you never was rude
You bought me clothes, the best in town
Whatever was happenin', baby, I was always around

I don't believe, I don't believe you'd let me down
Yes, when I needed you baby, honey, you're always around

When I was hungry, you gave me food
You treated me like a king, you never was rude
You bought me clothes, the best in town
Whatever was happenin', baby, I was always around

I don't believe, I don't believe you'd let me down
Yeah when I needed you baby, honey you're always around

I don't believe, I don't believe you got somebody else
I don't believe, I don't believe you got somebody else
Yeah, but I needed you baby, honey, you left me on the shelf

6. Tamp Em Up Solid (Ry Cooder cover)
Tamp 'em up solid, so they won't come down
Tamp 'em up solid, buddy, so they won't come down
Tamp 'em up solid, so they won't come down
Tamp 'em up solid, buddy, so they won't come down

Baby, when you marry your railroad man
Every day'll be pay day, dollar bill in your hand
Baby, in your hand, baby, in your hand
Baby, in your hand, baby, in your hand
Mary and the baby laying in the bed
Thinking about the money that I ain't made
So tamp 'em up solid so they won't come down
Tamp 'em up solid, buddy, so they won't come down

Captain called the water boy and the water boy laughed
Captain kicked the water boy yelling, "Yes, yes, yes"
So tamp 'em up solid, so they won't come down
Tamp 'em up solid, buddy, so they won't come down
And you can do it, and you can do it, and you can do it
So they won't come down

7. Django (Django Reinhardt cover)
Instrumental

8. Tea for One (Led Zeppelin cover)
How come twenty four hours, Baby sometimes seem to slip into days?
Oh twenty-four hours, Baby sometimes seem to slip into days
One minute seems like a lifetime, baby when I feel this way
Sittin, lookin at the clock yeah.., time moves so slow
I've been watchin for the hands to move
Until I just can't think no more
How come twenty four hours, Baby sometimes seems to slip into days?
One minute seems like a lifetime, Oh..Baby when I feel this way.
To sing a song for you, I recall you used to say
"Oh baby this one's for we two", Which in the end is you anyway
How come twenty four hours, Baby sometimes seem to… slip into days?
One minute seems like a lifetime, baby when I feel this way.
There was a time that I stood tall, In the eyes of other men
But by my own choice I left you woman, And now I can't, can't get you back again
How come twenty-four hours. Yeah.., Baby sometimes seem to slip into days?
One minute seems like a lifetime, Oh, Baby when I feel this way
One minute seems like a lifetime
Baby when I feel this way…I feel this way

9. Palm Trees Helicopters and Gasoline
Instrumental

10. Your Funeral and My Trial (Sonny Boy Williamson cover)
Please come home to your daddy, and explain yourself to me
Because I and you are man and wife, tryin' to start a family
I'm beggin' you baby, cut out that off the wall jive
If you can't treat me no better, it gotta be your funeral and my trial
When I and you first got together, 't was on one Friday night
We spent two lovely hours together, and the world knows alright
I'm just beggin' you baby, please cut out that off the wall jive
You know you gotta treat me better, if you don't it gotta be your funeral and my trial
Alright
The good Lord made the world and everything was in it
The way my baby love is some solid sentiment
She can love to heal the sick and she can love to raise the dead
You think I'm jokin' but you better believe what I say
I'm beggin' you baby, cut out that off the wall jive
Yeah, you gotta treat me better, or it gotta be your funeral and my trial

11. Torn Down
One more cross to bear
One more mind over matter
One more road I ride

One more day alone
One more night in the city
No more living lies

I won’t wait
I won’t be torn down
Wait
Won’t be turned around
Wait
I won’t be torn down

I won’t be torn down
Won’t be torn down
I won’t be torn down
Won’t be torn down
I won’t be torn down
Won’t be torn down, yea

Got my eyes on you
Bringin’ sight to a blind man
One more precious time

Feel the sun risin’
One more day with the rhythm
Just what I have to play

I won’t wait
I won’t be torn down
Wait
Won’t be turned around
Wait
I won’t be torn down

I won’t be torn down
Won’t be torn down
I won’t be torn down
Won’t be torn down
I won’t be torn down
Won’t be torn down, yea