Lyrics to Universal Everglade Blues

I ain't got no land to sell, no bridges or schemes

No messages or motives, no field of dreams

I ain't meddlin' or peddlin', I'm just messin' around

I'm just passin' through your town like a circus or a cloud

All the motorcycle gypsies gonna sing real loud

Every clown's got a history when they take off their shroud

I got a wagonful of songs, gonna spill 'em on the street

And all the stray dogs and cats can come out to eat

And if you're so inclined I hope you tap your feet

You can fiddle with your fingers, find a garbage can to beat

Cause all God's children got to bang on a drum

Everybody want to come and get me some

And if you perchance can remember some time

When you fell down in a meadow wet with starlight and wine

And you heard the big cows far-off breathin' and sighin'

And the frogs chirpin' love-crazy down in the slime

And if all you wanted to do was keep on hearin' that song

I believe that we might have somethin' in common

In the cities and the country, on the lonely lanes

On invisible trails left by the night-time planes

In the curves and the circles of all human veins

There's the same silent rush that keeps on whisperin' our name

In the shadow-fallin' footsteps of all the ancient gods

Everybody's got a heart like a lightnin' rod

Hey, old man Pan, he was a good friend of mine

I used to listen to him playin' down where the swamp trees entwine

On the little weird horn he sure could wail and whine

He could uproot trees, he could unplug time

He was the first rock 'n roller that I ever listened to

You should catch his act, he's playin' for me and you

Oh take me down, baby

Take me down to the swamp

Take me down

That's where I want

To be my baby, baby