Name the song and artist

[OmerV]

Said goodbye to their families
Said goodbye to their friends
With pipe dreams in their heads
And very little money in their hands

Stumped

 

[Runwildboys]

Stumped

Some are black and some are white
Ain't too proud to sleep on the floor tonight
With the blind faith of Jesus
You know that they just might
Be ******' ** *** ***

 

[OmerV]

Some are black and some are white
Ain't too proud to sleep on the floor tonight
With the blind faith of Jesus
You know that they just might
Be ******' ** *** ***

Still stumped. Probably something I should get, but my feeble mind isn't getting it.

 

[Runwildboys]

Still stumped. Probably something I should get, but my feeble mind isn't getting it.

John Mellencamp

 

[OmerV]

John Mellencamp

Ahh - which song? I'm pretty familiar with some Mellencamp, but not as much as I probably should be.

 

[Runwildboys]

Ahh - which song? I'm pretty familiar with some Mellencamp, but not as much as I probably should be.

R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.

 

[OmerV]

R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.

Hmm - I know the song but apparently I never learned the lyrics other than ROCK in the USA. lol

 

[dallasdave]

R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.

Ah back in the day

 

[dallasdave]

All this time - Sting

Don't stand so close to me.

 

[chagus]

"Now Rex he was a Texan out of New Orleans and he travelled with the carnival shows.
He ran bumper cars, sucked cheap cigars and he candied up his nose."

 

[Corso]

Some are black and some are white
Ain't too proud to sleep on the floor tonight
With the blind faith of Jesus
You know that they just might
Be ******' ** *** ***

ROCK In The
USA

 

[Trouty]

Once upon a time you dressed so fine
Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
People call to say "beware doll, you're bound to fail"
You thought the were all a'kiddin' you
Used to laugh about
Everyone that was hanging out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging your next meal

Hoowww does it feel?
[...]

(emphasis mine to make it somewhat easier to read/inflections)

 

[Corso]

Once upon a time you dressed so fine
Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
People call to say "beware doll, you're bound to fail"
You thought the were all a'kiddin' you
Used to laugh about
Everyone that was hanging out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging your next meal

Hoowww does it feel?
[...]

(emphasis mine to make it somewhat easier to read/inflections)

Easy.

"Didn't you?"
In that nasal voice of his...

 

[cowboyec]

"...ahh but you should know girl...that I'll be cryin'.
out on a lonely road where not a soul can see.
I'll shed my tears for...a love thats dyin' ".

 

[Doc50]

"...ahh but you should know girl...that I'll be cryin'.
out on a lonely road where not a soul can see.
I'll shed my tears for...a love thats dyin' ".

Ah’l uh have uh huh a Blue Christmas without you. (classic)

How ‘bout:

“Who would be a poor man,
a beggar man, a thief
If he had a rich man in his pad?

 

[blindzebra]

Got bottle, I'm gonna use it
Intention, I feel inventive
Gonna make you, make you, make you notice

Got motion, restrained emotion
Been driving Detroit leaning
No reason, just seems so pleasing
Gonna make you, make you, make you notice

[Chorus:]
Gonna use my arms
Gonna use my legs
Gonna use my style
Gonna use my side step
Gonna use my fingers
Gonna use my, my, my imagination

'Cause I gonna make you see
There's nobody else here
No one like me
I'm special so special
I gotta have some of your attention give it to me

Got rhythm I can't miss a beat
Got new skank it's so reet
Got something I'm winking at you
Gonna make you, make you, make you notice

[Chorus]

'Cause I gonna make you see
There's nobody else here
No one like me
I'm special, so special
I gotta have some of your attention
Give it to me
'Cause I gonna make you see
There's nobody else here
No one like me
I'm special, so special
I gotta have some of your attention

Give it to me

 

[Xelda]

Brass in Pocket by Pretenders (a personal favorite)

 

[Melonfeud]

R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.

I'd worked running hi-pressure nat. gas service to & thru his hometown,,, those bib overall wearing old timers all said he was just another long haired ner' do well hop head running around

 

[Runwildboys]

Ah’l uh have uh huh a Blue Christmas without you. (classic)

How ‘bout:

“Who would be a poor man,
a beggar man, a thief
If he had a rich man in his pad?

Crossed Eyed Mary - Jethro Tull

 

[RodeoJake]

Move slowly to my dresser drawers
Put my blue jeans on
Find my cowboy boots, my button down
Strap my timepiece on my arm
Grab my billfold, my pocket change
Just a mindless old routine
Then it's out the door and down the street
But it's not really me