Lyrics : Mud Rock On

  1. Burn On Marlon
  2. Let Me Get (Close To You)
  3. Walk Right Back
  4. Who You Gonna Love
  5. Slow Talking Boy
  6. Careless Love
  7. Drift Away
  8. Gotta Good Reason
  9. Too Much Of Nothing
  10. Cut Across Shorty

 

Released 1978 | RCA PL25170

Produced by MUD, Mike Hurst and Pip Williams

 

Album details

Burn On Marlon

So you think you can dance,

We’re gonna give you a chance,

Come on and show us what you can do.

With the music going loud,

Are you one of the crowd,

See the bright lights just for you.

Don’t you act so shy,

And let the time go by,

There ain’t no flies on you.

You’re turning on the heat,

And rocking on the beat,

Yeah that’s what you gotta do.

 

Chorus

Burn on Marlon

Be gone, be gone.

Burn on Marlon and dance the night away.

Burn on Marlon

Be gone, be gone.

Burn on Marlon,

Dance the night away.

(Burn on Marlon)

 

When all is said and done,

You are the only one,

Who can love her kiss tonight.

We know you’ve waited all day,

And now it’s your turn to play.

C’mon and rock and roll out of sight.

The way you hit the stand,

You’re just a one-man band,

The one we want to see.

Well you play it loud,

You’re drifting on a cloud.

Did you ever notice me?

 

Chorus

 

Break

 

Repeat Chorus to fade

 

Written by Rob Davis and Ray Stiles (Chappell Music)

 

Let Me Get (Close To You)

Let me get, let me get close to you.

Let me know, let me know what to do.

You made me believe you’d be true.

But I’m blue.

Let me get, let me get close to you.

 

You hear me calling but you never answer me.

(You hear me calling, you hear me calling)

So quit your stalling honey, come on back and see.

(Quit your stallin’, quit your stallin’)

Just what you’ve done,

It’s really such a shame.

Our love is dying,

You’re the one to blame

 

Let me get, let me get close to you.

(I wann a get close, I wanna get close to you).

Let me know, let me know what to do.

(Let me know just what to do)

You made me believe you’d be true.

But I’m blue.

Let me get, let me get close to you.

 

Break

 

I’m thinking of you sugar,

You’re always on my mind.

(I’m thinking of you, I’m thinking of you)

How come you’re changing and you say I’m not your kind

(How come you’re changing, how come you’re changing)

Took what you wanted and left me for a clown.

You had your way and turned me upside down.

 

Let me get, let me get close to you.

(I wanna get close, I wanna get close to you).

Let me know, let me know what to do.

(Let me know just what to do)

You made me believe you’d be true.

But I’m blue.

Let me get, let me get close to you.

 

Let me get, let me get.

(I wanna get close, I wanna get close to you).

Let me get, let me get.

(I wanna get close, I wanna get close to you).

Let me get, Let me get close to you.

 

Written by Rob Davis and Ray Stiles (Chappell Music)

Walk Right Back

I want you to tell me why you walked out on me

I’m so lonesome everyday

I want you to know that since you walked out on me

Nothin’ seems to be the same old way

Think about the love that burns within my heart for you

The good times we had before you went away, oh me

 

Walk right back to me this minute

Bring your love to me, don't send it

I’m so lonesome everyday

 

I want you to tell me why you walked out on me

I&rsuo;m so lonesome everyday

I want you to know that since you walked out on me

Nothin’ seems to be the same old way

Think about the love that burns within my heart for you

The good times we had before you went away, oh me

 

Walk right back to me this minute

Bring your love to me, don’t send it

I’m so lonesome everyday

 

Written by Sonny Cutis (Warner/Chappell)

Who You Gonna Love?

I want a good looking, hot loving cafe dollar woman, oh yeah.

’cos I’m a fast talking, hard living boy I got the moeny to share.

I’m the kind of guy,

Ain’t no body like me.

And I need your company

So come on (so come on)

So come on (so come on)

So come on and tell me, yeah, yeah, yeah.

 

Chorus

Who you gonna love, who you gonna love

You gotta tell me who you gonna love

Who you gonna love

Ain’t it really plain to see.

Who you gonna love, who you gonna love

Step right out to the stars above

I know you want love

I’m the one it’s gotta be.

Well a, who’s playin’, your sayin’ I’m faking,

Don’t that beat all.

’cos when I’m chosing, you’re losing

Girl, you’re heading too far.

I’ve been told that a party takes two.

Well here I am, honey, that leaves you.

So come on (so come on)

So come on (so come on)

So come on and tell me, yeah, yeah, yeah.

 

Chorus

 

So come on (so come on)

So come on (so come on)

So come on and tell me, yeah, yeah, yeah.

 

Break

 

Chorus - repeat to fade

 

Written by Rob Davis and Ray Stiles (Chappell Music)

 

Slow Talking Boy

Yes I remember your face from last year,

And your car, how it shines.

Unfortunately, he’s not here with me.

I would say where he is if I could.

Is it concerning the money he lent?

He was always flat broke.

Indubitably his sister can say if only you knew where to find her.

 

Chorus

That slow talking boy, he don’t work here no more

He go for a job in the city.

I wish I could say that he’ll come to some good,

But I know he won’t,

It’s a pity.

 

Yes I remember your face from last year,

And your car, how it shines.

Unfortunately, he’s not here with me.

I would say where he is if I could.

 

Chorus (repeat)

 

Written by Kongos/Leroy (Tapestry Music Ltd)

 

Careless Love

Love, oh love, oh careless love

You’ve fly through my head like wine

You’ve wrecked the life of a many poor girl

And you nearly spoiled this life of mine

 

Love, oh love, oh careless love

In your clutches of desire

You’ve made me break a many true vow

Then you set my very soul on fire

 

Love, oh love, oh careless love

All my happiness bereft

You’ve filled my heart with weary old blues

Now I’m walkin’, talkin’ to myself

Love, oh love, oh careless love

Trusted you now, it’s too late

You’ve made me throw my old friend down

That’s why I sing this song of hate

 

Love, oh love, oh careless love

Night and day, I weep and moan

You brought the wrong man into this life of mine

For my sins, till judgment I’ll atone

 

Traditional, arrangement by MUD (Chappell Music)

 

Drift Away

Day after day I’m more confused

But I look for the light through the pouring rain

You know it’s a game that I hate to loose.

I’m feeling the strain.

Ain’t it a shame.

 

Chorus

Gimme the beat boys and free my soul,

I wanna get lost in your rock ’n’ roll and drift away.

Gimme the beat boys and free my soul,

I wanna get lost in your rock ’n’ roll and drift away.

 

Beginning to think that I’m wasting time.

And I don’t understand the things I do.

The world outside looks so unkind

Now it’s up to you to carry me through.

 

Chorus

 

When my mind is free you know a melody can move me

And when I’m feelin’ blue, the guitar’s coming through to sooth me.

Thank’s for the joy that you’ve given me.

I want you to know what I feel in the song.

A rhythm and a rhyme and a harmony.

To help me along,

You’re making me strong.

 

Repeat Chorus to fade

 

 

Written by Williams (Rondor Music Ltd)

Gotta Good Reason

You could do things for me

Things that please come easy

Now, I’m by your side

Will you run and hide?

Oooh.

 

Chorus

Gotta a good reason to show you

I’m the only one, and that’s true.

Gotta good reason to tell you

Baby let your come through.

Aah, aahh

 

Gotta good reason to fall in love with you

Gotta good reason to fall in love with you.

 

You, you drive me crazy

Everybody tells me

You’ve got what I need

I’ll go where you lead

Ooh

 

Chorus

 

Gotta good reason to fall in love with you

Gotta good reason to fall in love with you.

 

Break

 

Chorus - repeat to fade

 

Written by Rob Davis and Ray Stiles (Chappell Music)

 

Too Much Of Nothing

I’ve lost the way

No need to say I was wrong

And now you’re leaving me

One things for sure

I gave you more than you’ll ever know

Why can’t you believe in me?

Nights I ain’t sleeping

Tell me what you’re keeping

Can’t you see I’m tearing us apart.

 

Chorus

I got too much of nothing

Nothing’s gonna see me through.

I got too much of nothing

So tell me, what am I to do?

 

Say it ain’t so

I’ve got to know

Come back to me, I’m waiting here for you.

Open your eyes

You can’t disguise our love and all that we’ve been through

Nights I ain’t sleeping

Tell me what you’re keeping

Can't you see I’m tearing us apart.

 

Chorus

 

Break

 

Chorus - repeat to fade

 

Written by Rob Davis and Ray Stiles (Chappell Music)

Cut Across Shorty

Now a country boy named Shorty

And a city boy named Dan,

Had to prove who could run the fastest

To win Miss Lucy’s hand.

Now Dan had all the money,

And he also had the looks.

But Shorty must have had something boys that can’t be found in books.

 

Chorus

“Cut across Shorty, Shorty cut across.”

That’s what Miss Lucy said.

“Cut across Shorty, Shorty cut across.

It’s you I wanna win.”

 

Now Dan had been in training,

A week before the race.

He’d made up his mind old Shorty,

Would end in second place.

Now Dan with his long legs flying,

Left Shorty far behind.

And Shorty heard him holler out,

“Miss Lucy you’ll soon be mine.”

 

Chorus

 

Break

 

But Shorty wasn’t worried.

He had a smile upon his face.

He knew that he was gonna win,

’Cos Lucy had fixed the race.

And just like that old story ’bout the turtle and the hare,

When Dan crossed over the finishing line,

He found Shorty waiting there.

 

Repeat Chorus to end

 

Written by Wilkin/Walker (Polygram Music Publishing Ltd)