Genius Meanings
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James Taylor – Sweet Baby James
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“Sweet Baby James” by James Taylor appears on his 1970 album of the same name.
This lullaby is one of Taylor’s finest: warm, innocent, and sweet.
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James Taylor – Sweet Baby James (Live)
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There is a young cowboy he lives on the range / His horse and his cattle are his only companions / He works in the saddle and he sleeps in the canyons / Waiting for summer, his
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George Hamilton IV – Sweet Baby James
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[Verse 1] / There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range / His horse and his cattle are his only companions / He works in the saddle and he sleeps in them canyons / A-waiting for
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James Taylor – Oh! Susanna
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“Oh! Susanna” [sic] by Steven Foster was published as sheet music in 1848. It’s a minstrel song, meant to be performed on-stage.
The publishing firm of Firth, Pond & Company
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James Taylor – (How Sweet It Is) To Be Loved by You (Live)
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How sweet it is to be loved by you / How sweet it is to be loved by you / I needed the shelter of someone's arms / There you were / I needed someone to understand my ups and downs
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James Taylor – Steamroller Blues
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“Steamroller” by James Taylor appears on his second studio album, “Sweet Baby James – 1970.
Rock journalist David Browne wrote about this song, saying:
“During his ‘Flying
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James Taylor – Fire and Rain
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James Taylor explained the song in an interview with David Mikkelson this way:
“Fire and Rain” has three verses. The first verse is about my reactions to the death of a friend
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James Taylor – Country Road
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[Verse 1] / Take to the highway / Won't you lend me your name? / Your way and my way / They seem to be one and the same / [Pre-Chorus 1] / Mama don't understand it / She wants to
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James Taylor – Oh Baby, Don't You Loose Your Lip on Me
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Oh, baby / Don't you loose your lip on me no, no no / Lord, have mercy, baby, now now now / Don't you loose your lip on poor old loving man JT, no woah / Now, I've tried so hard to
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James Taylor – Blossom
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[Verse 1] / Blossom, smile some sunshine down my way / Lately I've been lonesome / Blossom, it's been much too long a day / Seems my dreams have frozen / Melt my cares away / [
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James Taylor – Lo and Behold
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[Verse 1] / Lonely by day, empty and cold / Only to say lo and behold / Deep in the night, down in my dreams / Glorious sight this soul has seen / [Chorus] / There's a well on the
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James Taylor – Sunny Skies
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Sunny Skies sleeps in the morning / He doesn't know when to rise / He closes his weary eyes upon the day / Look at him yawning / Throwing his morning hours away / He knows how to
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James Taylor – Suite for 20G
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[Verse 1] / Slipping away, what can I say? / Won't you stay inside me, month of May? / And hold on to me, golden days, slipping away / [Bridge] / Sunshine on my wall / To keep my
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James Taylor – Up on the Roof (Live)
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[Intro] / *Clapping and cheering* / [Verse 1] / When this old world starts a-gettin' me down / And people are just too much for me to face / I'monna climb way up to the top of the
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James Taylor – Sweet Potato Pie
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Oh Lord I feel fine today / Walking on cloud nine today / I'm over that line today / Happiness is finally mine today / I guess I'm just a lucky guy / And I'm prepared to tell you
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James Taylor (Ft. Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor & Yo‐Yo Ma) – Hard Times Come Again No More
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Chorus: / ’Tis the song, the sigh of the weary / Hard times, hard times, come again no more / Many days you have lingered around my cabin door / Oh, hard times come again no more
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James Taylor – Anywhere Like Heaven
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One, two, three / When I walk along your city streets and look into your eyes / When I see that simple sadness that upon your features lies / If my spirit starts to sink, it comes
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James Taylor – Handy Man (Live)
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Hey girls, gather round / Listen to what I'm putting down / Hey baby, I'm your handy man / I'm not the kind to use a pencil or rule / I'm handy with love and I'm no fool / I fix
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James Taylor (Ft. Carly Simon) – How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)
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[Intro] / How sweet it is to be loved by you / How sweet it is to be loved by you / [Verse 1] / I needed the shelter of someone's arms / There you were / I needed someone to
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