THE BEST OF JON FERNANS

ARTIST

JON FERNANS

GENRE

ACOUSTIC ROCK / BLUES

Jon Fernans – vocals, acoustic guitar

James Crockett – guitar, keyboards

Ric Rosano – electric & acoustic, lead & rhythm guitar and bass

Dennis Simmons – keyboards

Carlos Moran and Joe Wyman – drums, percussions

Lyrics

I’m on the road baby I’m, doing

my job, I think about you all the

time, it keeps me working real

hard. Time’s a getting near,

yeah it won’t be long, my work

will over and I’ll have sung my

good night song.

Baby I’ll be, heading on home to

you, just you wait and see, that

knock on the door will be me.

Yeah I’ll be, heading on home to

you, so, let out the cat, settle

on back, kick off your shoes, I’m

heading on home to you.

I’ve been gone baby from your

side much too long, but in my

mind I see you every time I sing

a love song. You’re the only one

gal, who can get me high; it’s

been your love for all these

years that’s gotten me by.

I pack away my gear, finish my

last beer, think of us together

again, I know that time is

drawing near. When I see the

lights of my hometown coming in

sight, I know you’ll be waiting at

the door any time of the day or

night.

I said just you wait and see,

that knock on the door will be

me. Baby I’ll be, Heading on

home to you.

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.

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.

Lyrics

Now she’s gone and all I do is

miss her. Just once more, I

want to hug and kiss her. I miss

her so and I want her to know,

I still love her so. Heartache.

Heartbreak.

My daddy told me “son time

heals all wounds” but that ain’t

no comfort and it’s, none to

soon. You know what I’m feeling

now is empty and blue, without

you. Heartache. Heartbreak.

I wander around, all around

town, places that we used to go.

I hope and I pray, that maybe

someday, I’d ind you and here’s

what I’d say.

Oh how I missed you and I long

for your touch, the smell of you

perfume and sound of your voice,

let’s start anew baby you know I

love you and love me too.

Heartache. Heartbreak.

Love can be healing or love it can

destroy, make your spirits soar

or cause your downfall, it’s

better to have loved and lost

than never loved at all.

Heartache. Heartbreak.

Lyrics

I’m a happy guy; I’m on a natural

high. I get up in the morning and

I grab my girl, I take her in my

arms and we start to whirl,

moving and ah grooving’ she rocks

my world, we don’t stop til my

toes curl.

I’m a happy guy, I don’t know

why. People that I meet when I

walk down the street, they smile

at me and they talk real sweet,

maybe it’s because they think

I’m neat, maybe what you sow is

what you reap.

I’m a happy guy, I just let

things slide, I don’t care what

comes my way I take things from

day to day, when trouble comes

and skies are gray, I just smile

my blues away.

I’m a happy guy, I will survive,

I’m not rich and I’m not poor, I

got plenty and I don’t need

more, got me a wife and friends

galore and that’s what makes life

worth living for.

I’m a happy guy, I’m so

satisfied, God looks down and

protects me, from the things

that I can’t see, lady luck is

good to me, my life’s in

synchronicity.

Lyrics

Stop and take a look around,

you’ll be surprised what can be

found, the joy you seek in life is

all around. Your destination is

not the goal it’s just crossroads

for your soul, ’cause when this

journey ends another begins.

the joy is in the journey and

when this one ends another

begins. Yeah the joy is in the

journey and when this one ends

another begins, then again and

again.

Life’s too short to let it pass,

ya’ gotta slow down, try to

relax, get into he moment and

make it last. ‘Cause if you hurry

through this life, all ya’ gonna’

get is stress and strife and what

you miss is the best part of your life.

There’s more to life than meets

the eye, there’s more to living

than waiting to die, you start to

live when you learn to love the ride.

Lyrics

Your intuition it shines like the sun

it radiates inside of you it’s always

there and always true telling you

what’s best for you always speaking

directly to you

Your intuition it’s not what you think

when you think you think you know

that’s the time to let go ask yourself

what’s best for you let your intuition

come through

Your intuition it won’t let you down

when your looking for the truth

look within that’s where it’s found

on it’s advice you can depend there’s

no doubt or fear you can’t transcend

Your intuition is your oldest friend

from the time your life began and even

after this one ends like your soul it’s

always been a part of you that knows

no end.

Lyrics

Warm winds blow on a winters

day, the jet set sails down there

to play. America’s paradise

license tags say, down in the

West Indies where the steel

drums play.

A silver bird is going to fly me

away, leave my blues behind with

these cold winters days. I’m

gonna, lay in the sun down in

Megan’s Bay, I’m going to St.

Thomas for a holiday.

The sun will make you lazy make

you island crazy and if you ain’t

there, well it ain’t too rare.

Cause this is paradise and the

whole world, gets a share, you’ll

never know who you’ll meet, on

holidays there.

a silver bird is going to fly me

away gonna leave my blues

behind with these cold winter

days. Gonna lay in the sun down

in Megan’s Bay, going St.

Thomas for a holiday, going to

the islands and I just might

stay.

So, fly me away. I’m going to

leave here today, fly me

away.

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.

Lyrics

I’ve got a lifesaver, comes in one

flavor. Saved my life, once or

twice, makes my nights all right.

When times get bad and I get so

sad. From out of the blue, she

knows just what to do and my

life’s renewed.

People try and put me down, try

to drive my music in the ground,

they want to, keep me under till

I’m drowned, I’m saved again

when I hear the sound of.

My life saver, so glad God made

her, turns me round, settles me

down, I’m so glad I found my life

saver.

Lyrics

Ahab, oh Ahab, I bear thee no

grudge, thy course in life I care

not to judge, but if ye a good

mind to disrupt my good time, I’ll

bring unto thee, a fate so

unkind.

For I roam these seas bearing no

one ill will, seeking warm weather

and seas that are still, wanting

safe passage from the cold

waters chill and to avoid

Queequeg’s harpoon’s that kill.

Ahab, oh Ahab, pleas heed

Starbucks plea, fly these deadly

waters live this white whale be,

release this obsession ye long to

hold fast and pray that your God

will see your madness pass.

For many a man has gone down

to the sea, to seeking there

fortune on the bounty there be

but Davey Jones locker is filled

to the brim, with the bones of

the brave souls who’s luck has

run thin.

Now I hear the sound of the

long boats in chase, I see the

fear on the harpooners face, my

vengeance is swift as I seal

Ahab fate and deliver his soul

down below to hells gate.

Ahab, oh Ahab, ye sought out

revenge, but found only death

for you ship and your men, twas

not the White Whale that

delivered thy end, but the pride

of a captain and his lust for revenge.

Lyrics

Now, whenever I travel and babe

were apart, you know your

always wit me, for your in my

heart and you will always be a

part of me just like my soul, for

eternity. For you are my

sunshine, you’re my stars at

night, your there when the sun

sets, making everything all right.

Now am getting lonely, but I’m

never alone, ’cause when I think

of you babe, it takes me back home.

Yeah, it takes me back home,

whenever I think of you and I

think of all those, crazy things

we do. the laughing and the

crying, the fighting and the lovin’

the kissing and the hugging and

all that turtle dovin’. Yeah I just

close my eyes and I picture you,

I see your smile and I forget all

my blues, I remember the way

you felt, when I held you close,

but the taste on your lips babe,

well, that’s what I remember most.

Now, I might be crazy, but I’m

not insane, ’cause if I was a rich

man it’s at home wit you I’d

remain, but I’m a working guy

and I got my dues to pay, so it’s

life on the road and music to be

played and I long for the day

when I won’t have to roam and

I’ll spend all my time with you

making, music at home and I’ll be

kissing your lips, instead of a microphone

and when we make love babe, well

it won’t be on the phone.

But, folks tonight I’m quite

happy, to be here with you, tell

you my stories and play you some

blues and I will always remember

these times that we’ve shared

for in life these are the moments

that truly are rare and

if I’ve done my job and I’ve been

on the square and if I

entertained you with these songs

that I’ve aired and if you are able

and if you dare, put your hands

together now and show how much you care.