Rickie Lee Jones

Chuck E.’s In Love (1979)   Lyrics

Live at the Wiltern Theater

Jazzy Cover of the Jimi Hendrix song ‘Up From the Skies’

Coolsville [1979 Trilogy]

Catch the Wind [1989]

On Saturday Afternoons in 1963 [Lyrics on screen]

Live at the Wiltern Theatre 1992 

Flying Cowboys

Montreux Jazz Festival (1982) 

 Rickie Lee Jones In her Own Words [Interview]

Night Train

Here I’m going
Walkin’ with my baby in my arms
‘Cause I am in the wrong end of the eight-ball black
And the devil, see, he’s right behind us

And this worker said she’s gonna take my little baby
My little angel back
They won’t getcha, no
‘Cause I’m right here with you
On a night train

Swing low, Saint Cadillac
Tearin’ down the alley
And I’m reachin’ so high for you

Don’t let ’em take me back
Broken like valiums and chumps in the rain
That cry and quiver

When a blue horizon is sleeping in the station
With a ticket for a train
Surely mine will deliver me there

Here she comes
I’m safe here with you
On the night train
Mama, mama, mama, mama

Concrete is wheeling by
Down at the end of a lullaby
On the night train

Songwriter: Rickie Lee Jones

Dat Dere

Hey mama, what’s that there?
And what’s that doing there?
Hey mama, up here! Mama, hey look at that over there!
And what’s that doing there?
And where’re they going there?
And mummy can I have that big elephant over there?

Who’s that in my chair?
And what’s he doing there?
Mummy, up here!
Mummy, can I go over there?
Hey mummy, what is square?
And where do we get air?
And mummy can I have that big elephant over there?

Quit talking!
There’s no more anything here!
Forever to manage to know who and why and where!
Quit that, child!
Sometimes the questions get filed!
And mummy can I have that big elehpant over there?

Don’t wanna comb my hair
And where’s my teddy bear?
Mummy, up here!
Look at the cowboy coming there!
And can I have a pair
Of boots like that to wear?
And mummy can I have that big elephant over there?

Time will march
Days will go
And little baby’s going to grow
I gotta tell her what she needs to know
I’ll help her along
And she’ll be strong
And she’ll know right from wrong

As life’s parade goes marching by
She’s gonna need to know some reasons why
I don’t have all the answers
But I’ll try the best as I can
I’ll make him a man, that’s right

‘Cause you give the kid your best
And hope she passes the test
And I find it so hard I taught him well ***
Somewhere though she’s going I betting I never will forget ***
Mummy, can I have that big elephant over there?

Hey why they do that there?
And how you put that there?
Hey mummy, up here! Hey mummy, what that say up there?
Hey mummy, what is fair?
How come I have to share?
And mummy can I have that big elephant over there? (3x)

Dat Dere was written by Bobby Timmons and was recorded in 1960. Lyrics were written later by Oscar Brown, Jr.