Dar Williams
Dar Williams - Calamity John lyrics
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Come loverscome lonersremember yourselves As lusty tempestuous fools When your dream was to conquer an ocean From your small secretarial pools When you stood at the gulf of unknowing When you saw the great tundra of time And you cried for the winds to come blowing And you called a monsoon from the tides of the moon 'cause the roads were all dusty and dry Come lame dancing lonely tonight When what should appear in the distance Blown hither and yon it's calamity john And he's coming to sweep you away---aye I aye ayy He'll tear through the homefronthe'll lift you up laughing He'll blow every signpost away As the weather report says high drama With a five percent chance that he'll stay Now the floor starts to rock and the roof floats And your friends say he's bad for your health And they've warmed you about him on talk shows So you told him to packhit the roaddon't come back And he says hey "don't flatter yourself" ....and you say..... I am closing my door to the storm I am saving myself from it's freedom I have put the chain onoh calamity john I don't want you to dance me away---aye I aye ayy So it's seven months later you've bolted your hair back You're almost immune to the moon And at parties you stay in the kitchen Common sense with a big wooden spoon All at once you can feel the storm coming As you burst out into the old refrain To the sound of america drumming Call it paincall it artcall it open your heart Let it go let it flylet it rain(oh yeah) He smiles and the clouds turn to black With the wind through the flowers come blowing The warning bell's on"what's your nameoh it's john" That's such an unusual name---aye I aye ayy