DANCE WITH THE DEVIL / BEST OF THE BLUES
ARTIST
JON FERNANS
RELEASED
2001
GENRE
ACOUSTIC ROCK / BLUES
Ric Rossano – Lead, Slide, Acoustic Guitar & Bass
Ric Rossano appears courtesy of Favored Nations Records
Ron Litscheaur – Mandolin
Dennis Simmons – Keyboards
James Crockett – Guitar & Keyboards
Carlos Moran, Joe Wyman and Michael Moses – Drums & Percussion
Jon Fernans – Lead Vocals, Guitar
01 Ain’t Life a Bitch
Lyrics
I’ve been stepped on, kicked
around, lied to and dumped upon.
I’ve been set up and I’ve been let
down and given a case of the run-a-
round. I love music but I hate the “biz”,
I’d go back to Kansas if I could find the “Wiz”.
But ain’t life a bitch. I work so
hard you think I would be rich, but
it’s all I can do to keep my wheels
out of the ditch and ain’t life a bitch.
I’ve worked nice clubs I’ve worked
in dives, worked Holiday Inn’s just
to stay alive. I’ve opened malls I’ve
closed dance halls, I’ve played
weddings, yeah, I’ve done em’ all
I’ve been overworked, I’ve been
underpaid, I’ve been rained out on
holidays. I’ve worked for jerks,
mean dirt bags, young putt-sis and
old scumbags. Blown up amps and
broken strings, these are just a
few of my favorite things.
I’ve played long sets without a rest
in the mid day heat of old Key West
I played in pain I’ve played
in rain; I played to the noise of
loud jet planes. In smoke filled
rooms with air so stale, I’ve played
in the cold with snow and hail.
02 Mirror of Me
Lyrics
All the good and bad qualities
that you love or hate about me
there the same ones that you possess
and what you love and hate about yourself
call me crazy but i know it’s true
your a mirror of me and I’m a mirror of you
You can’t love in somebody else
what you don’t love within yourself
and what you hate within yourself your
gonna hate in everyone else
you might already know and this ain’t news
your a mirror of me and I’m a mirror of you
When you see in somebody else the qualities
that you possess the character that they
project that’s that’s mirror image you project
it’s elementary when you see the clues
your a mirror of me and I’m a mirror of you
Always look before you leap and you’ll
avoid the fire’s heat and if you rush to judge
somebody else you may be passing judgement
on your self there’s no exception and it’s
always the rule your a mirror of me and
I’m a mirror of you.
13 Black Sheep
Lyrics
I am the black sheep. I drink my
whiskey neat. I do just as I please
and I’m as free as the breeze
Baa, baa, baa, black sheep. I may
look like a wolf in sheep’s clothes,
but what I really am nobody knows.
I’m the first one you call, and I’m
the last one to come, and when you
think my loving is over, well honey,
it’s just begun.
I am the black sheep, and my loving
is so sweet, the women get no sleep
when I’m on my midnight creep.
I’ll make you believe, what you
cannot conceive, you’ll be under my
spell, my magic works so well.
I am the black sheep, and I’m not
one to tease, if push comes to
shove, I’ll bring you to your knees.
04 Lonesome Sea
Lyrics
I just got your letter, telling me
the news, that you’ve found
yourself a new love and your
leaving me the blues.
You said we were soul mates and
together we would be, now you’ve
set my soul adrift, out upon the
lonesome sea.
You said you’d come back and be
with me, for the rest of
eternity. Now my dreams are
shattered, scattered just like
leaves, with no one to blame for
my troubles but me.
Well you don’t know what you’ve
got, till what you’ve got is gone,
I should have made you my wife,
but I waited much too long.
And if you ever come back, you
know right where I’ll be, I’m
right here where you left me,
out upon the lonesome sea.
05 My Laurie
Lyrics
Eyes that sparkle in the night
hair that shines like morning light
got a voice like a nightingale at night
stops my heart when she walks by
starts again when she says hi
gotta make her mine or I’ll just die
oh my Laurie.
I never meet a girl quite like this
I believe I’m living in total bliss
fly to the moon every time I kiss
my Laurie me and my Laurie
I hold her close and I get high
when we kiss it makes me sigh
she’s the best I’ve ever had man and that is no lie
Laurie told me just the other day
made me smile when I heard her say
I fell for you boy right from the very first day
oh my Laurie oh my Laurie
Gonna ask her tonight to be all mine
marry me and be my valentine
we’ll live together making babies till the end of time
Laurie turned around and looked my way
knocked me out when I heard her say
I feel for you boy right from the very first day
oh my Laurie oh my Laurie
Baby food cats and dogs
Sunday dinners with mothers’s in law
happiest couple you ever saw me and my Laurie
me and my Laurie me and my Laurie
06 My Cuban Queen
Lyrics
Free as a bird, wild like the
wind, leads with her heart, she
might let you in. she’ll drive you
crazy, make your head hazy,
wear out your body and leave you
crazy. She’ll do anything that
you’ve ever dreamed; she’ll take
you places that you’ve never
been, m Cuban queen.
Smart as a whip, sharp as a
tack, her intuition is right on
track. No use denying, she knows
when you’re lying , you can’t
deceive her or mislead her.
She knows every place that
you’ve ever been; she knows
everybody that you’ve ever
seen, my Cuban queen.
Cold hands, warm heart, gives of
herself right from the start. No
prima Donna that you take home
to mamma, she can be whatever,
woman you wanna’. she don’t
care for material things, she
don’t care if you’re a pauper or a
king, she’s my Cuban queen.
Long wavy hair, her skin’s so
fair, my favorite feature is her
derriere. She’s got a smile that’s
as bright as the sun and when
she laughs she, comes undone.
Got killer legs that are long and
lean, she’s got curves like you’ve
never seen, my Cuban queen.
She’s always fair, she loves to
share, she believes in the power
of prayer. She’s got a heart
that’s as big as a whale,
compassionate like Florence
Nightingale, she’s never phony
and she’s never mean, she’s just
as kind and as sweet as she
seems, my Cuban queen.
07 She’s the One
Lyrics
Came upon a summers day,
changed my life in every way, I
pray to God that she’s here to
stay, she’s the one and I just
got to say, she’s the one, who’s
got my blues on the run.
She’s the one and I admit, she’s
the one I can’t resist, she’s the
one I’ll never quit, she’s the one
I love to kiss, she’s the one,
who’s got my blues on the run.
Winter comes and our love goes
into overdrive and I let her
know, I’m not about to ever let
her go, she’s the one and I want
her to know, she’s the one, who’s
got m blues on the run.
She’s the one who makes me
laugh, she’s the one who makes
me cry, she’s the one who makes
me high, she’s the one who
makes me sigh, she’s the one,
who’s got my blues on the run.
Springtime comes and we both
fall, deeper in love like never
before, she makes me feel like
I’m ten feet tall, she’s the one
and who I truly adore, she’s the
one, who’s got my blues on the
run.
08 Working Don’t Pay
Lyrics
Oh dear Lord won’t you hear my
case, I’m working in a place and
I just can’t relate, to the hours
and the pay for six bloody days,
but until I get a break this is
where I’m going to stay.
Working for somebody else, I
said it just don’t pay.
I got me a job and man it really
sucks, but I just figure it’s part
of my bad luck and what the hell
a buck’s a buck and I’ll get out
of here with any kind of luck.
Don’t get me wrong folks it’s not
that I’m lazy, it’s just that I’d
have to be pretty damn crazy,
to work so hard for somebody
else when I could be making more
if I was working for myself.
I’m working my life away for so
little pay, waiting all week for
the seventh day and in the back
of my mind I know that there’ll
come a time, when the things I
dream of someday will be mine.
I know this story ain’t no front
page news, it’s just another case
of working man’s blues, yeah but
someday maybe when I pay my
dues, I’ll get out of here lord
and that will be news.
09 Shady Lady
Lyrics
I like to watch her when she
walks, and when she walks the
way she walks, my heart just
stops and skips a beat, I start
to sweat from body heat, you
know she knocks me of my feet,
my shady lady can’t be beat.
I love to hear her when she
talks and when she talks the way
she talks, her laughter’s music to
my ears, her sad refrain brings
me to tears, she knocks me out
every time she swears, my shady lady
don’t put on airs.
I hate to see her when she’s
sad, I hate to see her when
she’s mad and every time she
gets so sad and every time she
gets so mad, I tell her nothing
can be so bad, my shady lady
can’t be had.
I love to watch her when she
walks, I love to hear her when
she talks and every time she
talks that talk and every time she
talks that talk and every time
she walks that walk. My shady
lady walks the walk; my shady
lady talks the talk.
10 Dance With the Devil
Lyrics
You can roll your smoke and snort
your coke, and you can shoot your
smack and smoke your crack and
you can get so high that you think
you can fly and your going to live
forever and never going to die.
But if you dance with the devil
there’s going to be hell to pay. X3
You can drink and drive just like a
bat-out-of-hell on French
champagne or muscatel, and say
you’re your OK and you’re not that
high, or that accidents happen to
the other guy.
You can get your kicks from lot’s
of chicks, or get your high’s from
lot’s of guy’s, and you can have
more sex than anybody else and
think your so slick and that you’ll
never get sick.
You can be our cash on a horse
that’s fast or risk the rent on a
sport’s event and think you’re so
lucky you can beat the odds or
that you’re doing something special like a
demy-God.