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The Complete Mercury Recordings 1986 - 1991
Disc 1
01. Birth of Rock and Roll
02. Sixteen Candles
03. Class of ‘55
04. Waymore‘s Blues
05. We Remember the King
06. Coming Home
07. Rock and Roll (Fais‐Do‐Do)
08. Keep My Motor Running
09. I Will Rock and Roll With You
10. Big Train (From Memphis)
Disc 2
01. The Big Light
02. The Ballad of Barbara
03. I’d Rather Have You
04. Let Him Roll
05. The Night Hank Williams Came to Town
06. Sixteen Tons
07. Letters From Home
08. W. Lee O’Daniel (and the Light Crust Dough Boys)
09. Heavy Metal (Don’t Mean Rock and Roll to Me)
10. My Ship Will Sail
Disc 3
01. Ballad of a Teenage Queen
02. As Long as I Live
03. Where Did We Go Right
04. The Last of the Drifters
05. Call Me the Breeze
06. That Old Wheel
07. Sweeter Than the Flowers
08. A Croft in Clachan (The Ballad of Rob MacDunn)
09. New Moon Over Jamaica
10. Water From the Wells of Home
11. Ballad of a Teenage Queen (alternate mix)
12. That Old Wheel (alternate mix)
Disc 4
01. Get Rhythm
02. Tennessee Flat Top Box
03. Long Black Veil
04. A Thing Called Love
05. I Still Miss Someone
06. Cry, Cry, Cry
07. Blue Train
08. Sunday Morning Coming Down
09. Five Feet High and Rising
10. Peace in the Valley
11. Don’t Take Your Guns to Town
12. Home of the Blues
13. Guess Things Happen That Way
14. I Got Stripes
15. I Walk the Line
16. Ring of Fire
17. Ballad of Ira Hayes
18. The Ways of a Woman in Love
19. Folsom Prison Blues
20. Supper Time
Disc 5
01. Sunday Morning Coming Down
02. Get Rhythm
03. I Walk the Line
04. Long Black Veil
05. I Still Miss Someone
06. Blue Train
07. I Got Stripes
08. Peace in the Valley
09. Five Feet High and Rising
10. Folsom Prison Blues
11. Cry, Cry, Cry
12. Don’t Take Your Guns to Town
13. Tennessee Flat Top Box
14. A Thing Called Love
15. The Ways of a Woman In Love
16. Ballad of Ira Hayes
17. Guess Things Happen That Way
18. Home of the Blues
19. Supper Time
20. Ring of Fire
Disc 6
01. A Backstage Pass
02. Cat’s in the Cradle
03. Farmer’s Almanac
04. Don’t Go Near the Water
05. Family Bible
06. Harley
07. I Love You, Love You
08. Hidden Shame
09. Monteagle Mountain
10. That’s One You Owe Me
11. Veteran’s Day (single B‐side)
12. I Shall Be Free (single B‐side)
13. I Draw the Line (previously unreleased)
14. A Backstage Pass (early version)
15. Harley (early version)
16. That’s One You Owe Me (early version)
17. Veteran’s Day (early version)
Disc 7
01. The Greatest Cowboy of Them All
02. I’m An Easy Rider
03. The Mystery of Life
04. Hey Porter
05. Beans for Breakfast
06. Goin’ by the Book
07. Wanted Man
08. I’ll Go Somewhere and Sing My Songs Again
09. The Hobo Song
10. Angel and the Badman
11. The Wanderer
Diddle dee dee, diddle diddle doo doo
Diddle doo doo, too too too too
Diddle dee dee, diddle diddle doo doo
Diddle doo doo, too too
Ooh ooh

Well, the farmer prayed for a better year
And the crops were good like the Lord did hear
But his barn burned down with winter near

The answer came in white and black
In the farmer's almanac, it says
If a man could have half his wishes he could double his trouble

A sweet old lady was eighty-four
When her kinfolks came for a month or more
Now from overwork she's on the other shore
Much too late was y'all come back
And it says in the farmer's almanac, it says
Visitors and fish smell after three days

Our leader was a silver tongued man
He deceived the people of the land
And when he got caught he couldn't stand

It's a little off-beat and a little off-track
But it says in the farmer's almanac, it says
In rivers and bad government the lightest things flow to the top

Diddle doo doo, diddle diddle doo doo
Diddle doo doo, dooddle diddle doo
Diddle diddle doo doo,diddle doo doo
Diddle doo doo, doo doo
Ooh ooh ooh

Rod said, "I don't believe in God"
Rod died and lies beneath the sod
For God did not believe in Rod

Life is a troubled and a weary track
But it says in the farmer's almanac, it says
Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death

The little boy followed the honeybee
And it flew straight to the honey tree
He got stung but got the honey free

Consolation for the things you lack
Is in the farmer's almanac, it says
God gives us the darkness so we can see the stars

He came home three hours late from work
Said, "I had a flat and fell in the dirt"
She said, you "got lipstick on your shirt"

Well, it turned out like Jill and Jack
And it says in the farmer's almanac, it says
Lies have to be covered up, truth can run around naked

Diddle doo doo, diddle doo doo doo
Diddle doo doo, diddle you doo doo
Dooddle doo doo, dooddle dooddle doo doo doo
Dooddle doo doo, doo doo doo
Ooh

He said, honey, you know I'm true
I just look at other women that's all I do
Then she caught him with her best friend Peggy Sue

Sometimes some women will look back
And it says in the farmer's almanac, it says
There's a lot of difference in window shoppin' and shop liftin'

I sat down at a shoeshine stand
I had a real slow shoeshine man
I said you don't pop that rag like some of 'em can
He looked at me and then he sat right back

It says in the farmer's almanac, it says
The trouble with the world today
Is there's too much poppin' and not enough shinin'

Diddle dee dee, diddle doo doo doo
Diddle dee dee, diddle doo doo doo
Diddle doo doo, diddle doo doo doo
Diddle doo doo, diddle doo

Diddle dee dee, diddle doo doo doo
Diddle dee dee, diddle doo doo doo
Diddle doo doo, diddle doo doo