Burn Down the Mission (including My Baby Left Me & Get Back) Songtext
von Elton John

You tell me there′s an angel in your tree
Did he say he'd come to call on me?
For things are getting desperate in our home
Living in the parish, of the restless folks I know

Everybody now, bring your family down to the riverside
Look to the east to see where the fat stock hide
Behind four walls of stone the rich man sleeps
It′s time we put the flame torch to their keep

Burn down the mission
If we're gonna stay alive
Watch the black smoke fly to heaven
See the red flame light the sky
Burn down the mission
Burn it down to stay alive
It's our only chance of living
Take all you need to live inside

You gotta breathe ′em down


Deep in the woods the squirrels are out today
My wife cried when they came to take me away
But what more could I do just to keep her warm
Than burn-burn-burn, burn down the mission walls

Everybody, bring your family down to the riverside
Look to the east to see where the fat stock hide
Behind four walls of stone the rich man sleeps
It′s time we put the flame torch to their keep

Burn down the mission
If we're gonna stay alive
Watch the black smoke fly to heaven
See the red flame light the sky
Burn down the mission
Burn it down to stay alive
It′s our only chance of living
Take all you need to live inside

Burn it down, burn it down
Burn it down, burn it down

Yeah

Burn down

Alright, yeah


Well my baby left me
Never said a word
Was it something I done
Something that she heard?
My baby left me, baby left me
My baby even left me
Never said a word
Well my baby left me
Never said a thing
Never said a word, don't you worry my baby left me
Baby left me
Baby you done left now
Gave no farewell
Rock and roll, woah

Have a pop that, clap your hands, come on

Clap your hands, fallin′ back, clap your hands

Oh clap

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah
Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah
Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh

Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner
But he knew it couldn't last
Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona
For some California grass
So get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged

Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman
But she was another man
All the girls around her said she′s had it coming
But she gets it while she can
So get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
For me baby

Oh everybody, get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Alright

At this point we'd like to thank you for coming
Thank everybody for listening
For ABC for letting us play
For A&R Studios for letting us have the studio
And after everybody in Dell, thank you
And keep smiling, that's the most important thing, alright
Ah, just gonna do one more thing
One, two, three, alright, good night

Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
Feelin′ alright yeah, yeah, yeah
Feelin′ alright, yeah, yeah, yeah
Feelin' alright yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
I said I want you body, ride on down

I said, body, ride on, ride on
Ride on, ride on, ride on

Down

Thank you
Elton John everybody
Elton John
Nigel, drums, Nigel that was some′
Dee, Dee over there on bass guitar
Bernie Tuapin
Bernie, incredible lyrics
Elton John
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