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Turn Up For The Books

by Robbie McIntosh

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1.
Well I'm a Biodegradable man, you can take me for what I am Just a great big lump o' ham sitting in the pig pen You can throw me on the compost heap you can bury me down real deep you can stand around and weep but I'll be back again Arms like twigs, a trunk like tree a head like a cabbage and a brain like pea with a couple of potatoes hanging down below Well I'm carbon based from head to feet plenty of fat, plenty of meat Deep down just sinew and bone Well you are, what you eat Sometimes sour and sometimes sweet Well I'm a biodegradable man etc. I make a whole lot of methane gas I'll make flowers grow out of your arse I'll do anything that you ask, which way'd the wind blow Well you are, what you eat Recycle me into something sweet Well I'm a biodegradable man etc.
2.
Trouble soon be over Sorrow will have an end Trouble soon be over Oh Sorrow will have an end I'd talk to God if he could hear me With only myself to praise I'd talk to God if he was near me Pray for better days Trouble soon etc God is my soul protector He's my bosom friend When trouble rose all around I know he'd take me in Trouble soon etc. Though my burden may be heavy I won't let it crush me down Someday I'll rest with Jesus And wear a starry crown Trouble etc.
3.
Carousel 04:47
You're the power in me, you turn my wheel You're the warm wind, that fills my sail You're the only one, that makes my day It's always night, when you're far away Well you sent me out with a price upon my head I guess I made my bed, and broke it I'm like a carousel, that can't go round Without a push from you, I make no sound And there's a noisy world, spinning round me And everytime, I don't jest I make the line, second best I can't do my work, or make the grade Overdressed, and underpaid High and dry with no water in my pail No wind to turn my sail, and turn me I'm like a carousel etc
4.
Highland blues, highland blues Highland blues hidden in a song (Rpt.) A horse thief were I For that I must die In cold gaol I lie with my highland blues My highland blues On mountainside The cold wind does chide For home I ride and my highland blues My highland blues Highland blues, highland blues Oh highland blues hidden in a song For king I fight A man I despise His hatred and lies and my highland blues My highland, highland blues Sweet bonnie gal Wait for me shall
5.
You know that I can see pretty clearly I just never care to look I'm gonna take some notes and maybe I will try to write a book Or get myself some pots and pans and then I'll teach myself to cook And I'll be gone, yes I'm gone And I'll keep it to myself Why would I want to tell anybody else I'll put it up on the top shelf and I'll keep it to myself Yeah I'll keep it to myself I'll keep it to myself Yeah I'll keep it to myself I could shout it from the roof tops maybe I could write it in the sky Or get myself a judge and a jury and I'll stand up and I'll testify Or put on my traveling' shoes and then wave everyone goodbye And I'll be gone, yes I'm gone And I'll keep it to myself Why would I etc.
6.
Put on your new hat Put on your new spats We're gonna see a gent He really is a gent Lift up your hat cos Mississippi John Hurt's in town He came all the way from Avalon Left a pretty girl in Avalon He ain't gonna be here long So we really oughta get along Lift up your hat cos Mississippi John Hurt's in town Well you know he's gonna pick some With his fingers and his thumb With a voice that is cool and clear Sweetest voice that you'll ever hear Lift up your hats boys cos Mississippi John Hurt's in town Lift Up Your Hat
7.
I bought a boat - It had a leak I met a strongman - He was weak I bought some fried chicken - It had a beak I got lost - Playing Hide 'n' seek Was a turn up for the books Just a turn up for the books Many many hands - Or too many cooks It was a turn up for the books I bought a clock - With no face I bought a horse - That wouldn't race I got myself some shoes - I couldn't lace I got a pacemaker - That couldn't stand the pace Was a turn up…etc Take no notice of all those strange looks It's just a turn up for the books Well you drinker - You smoker You're off line - Playing online poker Well you wretch - You joker That's the fire - And you're the stoker Was a turn up…etc Lining the pockets - Of Dirty crooks Just a turn up for the books
8.
Swing Races 01:34
Instrumental
9.
See my face out on the river Striking for the distant shore With all the things I can deliver I'm gonna raid the store And go to the races more Now I know which way the wind blows Now I'm fighting in the war Tired of sitting in the window Step through the open door Go to the races more Is it me that's being distant Calling from a foreign shore Fight against so much resistance I know I've found a cure I'll go to the races more I hoped that love would find the answer Put my body to the fore Break the rules just like a chancer Breaking up every law And go to the races more And go to the races more Get down to the races more
10.
Don't know much about history Don't know much biology Don't know much about the science book Don't know much about the French I took But I do know that I love you And I know that if you loved me to What a wonderful world this could be Don't know much about geometry Don't know much trigonometry Don't know much about algebra Don't know what a slide rule is for But I do know one and one is two And if this one could be with you What a wonderful world this could be Well i don't claim to be an 'A' student But that's what I'm trying to be 'cause if I was, an 'A' student baby I could win your love for me
11.
Stone Cold 04:42
As I lay beneath the sun There's more races to be won I'm stone cold, stone cold again As I lift my body up As I lift the coffee cup It's stone cold, stone cold again Stone cold, Stone, stone cold Stone cold again As I lift the glass of wine As I wait for party time I'm stone cold, stone cold again Take me with you if you can Lead me there, just take my hand It's stone cold, stone cold again Stone cold etc.
12.
I got this graveyard woman, you know she keeps my kid
But my soulful mama, you know she keeps me hid
She’s a junkyard angel and she always gives me bread
Well, if I go down dyin’, you know she bound to put a blanket on my bed. Well, when the pipeline gets broken and I’m lost on the river bridge
I’m cracked up on the highway and on the water’s edge
She comes down the thruway ready to sew me up with thread
Well, if I go down dyin’, you know she bound to put a blanket on my bed. Well, she don’t make me nervous, she don’t talk too much
She walks like Bo Diddley and she don’t need no crutch
She keeps this four-ten all loaded with lead
Well, if I go down dyin’, you know she bound to put a blanket on my bed. Well, you know I need a steam shovel mama to keep away the dead
I need a dump truck mama to unload my head
She brings me everything and more, and just like I said
Well, if I go down dyin’, you know she bound to put a blanket on my bed.
13.
You said that you're gonna leave me, like it or not Better watch your temper now 'cause it's burning hot Take no prisoners now, take it away Could be the last thing that you say to me Something tells me that this time it's true Something tells me that this time it's true Well I can read the signs…and the lines… on your face Tell me that this time it's true You've said that you're gonna leave me, many times before I've tried to find a reason, I just find the door I'll cover you in love, take away the pain But you'd say that it's... it's all in vain and that This time it's true Something tells me that this time it's true Well I can read the signs…and the lines… on your face They tell me that this time it's true You said that you could have helped me, here and there We could have helped each other more…to be fair So now the world's in your hands like an oyster shell I guess it's time, that we wished each other well Cos this time it's true Tell me that this time it's true Well I can read the signs…and the lines…on your face Well they tell me that this time it's true Something tells me that this time it's true Tell me that this time it's true And it's down to you, down to you If you tell me that this time it's true
14.
Arms 06:37
Well the storm it rages, high above our head As we turn the pages, we turn the pages red Don't you lay down your arms Cos I won't give up so easily Don't you lay down your arms for me If we show no mercy, how can we survive Chapter and verses, dominate our lives Don't you lay down your arms Cos I won't give up so easily Don't you lay down your arms for me Well it's time to hang onto, all the things we love Well it's time to hang onto….isn't that enough?! Don't you lay down your arms Cos I won't give up so easily Don't you lay down your arms for me

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New album from journeyman guitarist Robbie McIntosh

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released September 7, 2013

Produced by Robbie McIntosh and Stephen Darrel Smith.
Engineered by Stephen Darrel Smith
Additional engineering by Robbie McIntosh, Rowan McIntosh and Simon Small
Cover photography by Angela Heron
Cover design by Angela Heron, Holly and Flo McIntosh
Additional photography by Luke Beavis, Robbie McIntosh and James Thrift.

THANKS:
Paul Beavis, Stephen Darrel Smith, Steve Wilson, Jess Upton, Pino Palladino, Mark Feltham, David Symes, Frazer, Flo, Rowan, Holly and Hannah McIntosh, my Mum and Dad, Barbara and Jeannie and my nephews and nieces, Johnny Gawlik, The Cox family, Bonnie and Dan Smith, Ian Brown, Geoff Baker, Angela Heron, Ken Watkins, Chris Lonergan, Ady Milward, The Steamer Ducks, Al Strawbridge, Marco Rossi, Pete Smith and all the Weymouth posse, Wix and Margo Wickens, Douglas Adams and Family, Charlie Chandler, Bill Puplett, Vince Hockey, Mike Hill, George Bade, Mike Lewis, Dave King, Gary Dear, Duesenberg Guitars, Steve Fairhead.
Brad Jackson and Jackson Ampworks
Hugh Gilmartin and D'Addario Strings
Fine Resophonic Guitars

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Robbie McIntosh Weymouth, UK

Robbie McIntosh is well known as a sideman/session player (Paul McCartney, The Pretenders, Talk Talk, Norah Jones, Tears For Fears, to name but a few)
As a solo performer and singer, he has released 8 albums:
Seaworld,
Fortuneswell,
Turn Up For The Books,
Widescreen, Emotional Bends
3 albums of instrumentals:
Unsung, Hush Hour and Christmas Carols.
Also the Let’s Put It All Together EP.
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