David Vanian and the PHANTOM CHORDS
BIG BEAT Records 1995.
Voodoo Doll(Jugg, Moon, Dempsey)
Snake eyed little voodoo
A spider queen creole
Spellbound by the hoodoo
Yeah when she gets loaded
She is a voodoo doll
Like a canon in Mazango
Kiss her poison lips
A beat of wild fandango
In the rhythm of her hips
When she is loaded
So mean you will fall
(What a way to go)
Snake eyed little voodoo
Seek out mambo doll
I'm spellbound in her hoodoo
Yeah she'll catch you when you fall
Yeah when she is loaded
Man she's a voodoo doll
Screamin' Kid(Roman Jugg)
I was a regular guy
Cut no ice
Seven years of torture
I've been to hell and back
Now I'm a screamin' kid
With a bottle of jack
My woman she turned the cheek
Hell that's a plain fact
So I blew out my baby
For a bottle of jack
I am the screamin' kid
I play the dice
Seven years of heartache
I've been to hell and back
Now I'm a screamin' kid
Always dressed in black
My woman was bent on cheating
Hell that's a fact
So I blew out my baby
For a bottle of jack
I am a screamin' kid
Yeah I am a screamin' kid
Big Town(Dave Vanian)
Come Monday depressed feelings
I won't let it get me down
Come Tuesday and I feel better
Gonna head out to the big town
Wednesday goes dragging by
I watch the clock all day
On Thursday I'm packed and ready
Friday I can get away
Las Vegas here I come
I hear your desert song
Its like a ghostly tune I sing along
And I won't be long
Monday and love's a gamble
And Tuesday well life's a drag
On Wednesday the chips are down
I decided to go to the big town
Thursday I'm packed and ready
Friday well I'm on my way
To a desert with a garden of dreams
Where all the girls are diamonds and dollars are kings
Girls are diamonds and dollars are kings
Las Vegas here I come
I hear your desert song
Its like a ghostly tune I sing along
And I won't be long
And I won't be long
Come Monday depressed feelings
I won't let it get me down
Come Tuesday and I feel better
Gonna head out to the big town
Wednesday goes dragging by
I watch the clock all day
On Thursday I'm packed and ready
Friday I can get away
I get away
I get away
I get away
Viva Las Vegas
Viva Las Vegas
Viva Las Vegas
This House Is Haunted(Billy Rose, Basil Adlam)
Well the house is haunted by the echo of your last goodbye
Yeah the house is haunted by memories that refuse to die
You know I can't get away from a vision that brings
Intimate glances of intimate things
Yeah a voice in my head like a torch singer sings
I wonder who's kissing her now
The house is haunted by the echo of your favourite song
And the place is cluttered with roses that have lived too long
Much too long
The feeling is white the shadows are black
The ghost in my heart says you're never coming back
The house is haunted by the echo of your last goodbye
Goodbye, bye bye
The feeling is white the shadows are black
The ghost in my heart says you're never coming back
The house is haunted by the echo of your last goodbye
You And I(Gonzales)
You and I were torn apart
I should have seen it from the start
We fell in love but too fast
And I should have seen it wouldn't last
I can't forget the night that we met
It burns deep down in my soul
And all of those days they made me sad
Something somehow made us let go
You and I were bound to change
What made our love rearrange
I was true and so were you
What made our love turn to pain
And all of those nights that we've been apart
And how I just kept my heart crying for you
And all of those days just made me sad
We never knew what we had
You and I were meant to be
So why can't our hearts be free
Whisky And Me(D O'Leary)
Sunrise early morning I've never been so tired
Stayed awake all through the night got something on my mind
I had a friend I loved she said that she loved me
But monday's coming 'round and I'm alone it's just whiskey and me
On Friday when she left me took everything she owned
Her bad records, her bad knickers, her bad TV and her old clothes
I wanted to possess her she wanted to be free
Now Monday's coming 'round I'm alone it's just whiskey and me
Next day I got lonely took a ride out in my car
Wound up drinking heavy in a smokey singles bar
I had a friend I loved I thought that she loved me
Yeah Monday's coming 'round and I'm alone it's just whiskey and me
Sunday I went looking and I found her in the park
I took out my revolver and I shot her in the heart
She said she wanted freedom I guess I set her free, yeah
Now Monday's coming 'round and I'm alone it's just whiskey and me
Fever In My Blood(Jugg, Moon, Dempsey)
I taste midnight bitter sweet
A cursing curse in a hell saloon
On my knees howling at the moon
You are the fever in my blood
You are the fever in my blood
You are the fever in my blood
Fire, a burning fire
I roam nights like a dog on heat
The demon rides like the silken road
I bare my soul in a bloody roar
You are the fever in my blood
You are the fever in my blood
You are the fever in my blood
Burning, burning ring of fire
On my knees
I bare my soul in a bloody roar
You are the fever in my blood
You are the fever in my blood
You are the fever in my blood
I'm burning, a burning fire
Yeah I'm on my knees I'm on my knees
Fire, fire burning fire
Frenzy(Hill, Stevenson)
Well in this crazy mood I'm in
Listen to my heart as it starts to spin
When you kiss me I do it again
I'm in a frenzy, yeah
Close my eyes when you lock me up
Listen to me wiggle like elastic cup
When you touch and warm me up
I'm in a frenzy, yeah
Frenzy
This love I give you is from the heart
Rock n 'roll is from the spine
You get a flame from a tiny spark
You really knock me out
Yeah
Lose my mind in your real cool eyes
Fill my soul with love divine
When you said you're mine all mine
I'm in a frenzy
Frenzy
Yeah
Shooting Jones(Brendan Moon)
Her hair was as black as night
Her eyes mean as hell
Crimson kisses & voodoo jive
We took each other and fell
Shooting jones in play pen
And all the singles bars
Pay phone call from Jacksonville
Move on tired man feel so ill
The streets I walk with you
Breath now I roam alone
I pass a thousand houses
Not one to call my home
Carved our names with a knife
And cut on glass to tell
Shooting jones in the play pen
And all the singles bars
Pay phone call from Jacksonville
Made a long tired man felt so ill
Her hair was as black as night
And her eyes mean as hell
Jezebel(W Shanklin)
Jezebel it was you
If ever the devil was born
Without a pair of horns
It was you - Jezebel
It was you
If ever an angel fell
Jezebel
It was you
If ever a pair of eyes
Roam this paradise
Believe in me breathe in me
Making me blue - Jezebel
Ooh Jezebel
It was you
If ever the devil's plan
Was made to torment man
It was you - Jezebel
If ever a pair of eyes
Roam in paradise
Deceiving me breathing me
Making me blue - Jezebel
Jezebel
It was you
If ever the devils plan
Was made to torment man
It was you
Night and day
Jezebel
Jezebel
Jezebel
Jezebel
Tonight We Ride(Dave Vanian)
Tonight we ride 'cause we're burning up inside
I'm checking out of heartbreak hotel
I'm never going back again
Tattooed flames and a bike
We race through the night through the night
Tonight we ride to get away from everything
And anything at all
Tonight we ride I don't care about all you purile views
They're just yesterdays news
I'm checking out of heartbreak hotel
I'm never going back again
Tattooed flames and a bike
We race through the night through the night
Tonight
Get away from everything and everywhere I've been
I don't care about your views
They're just yesterdays news
I'm checking out of heartbreak hotel
I'm never going back again
Tattooed flames and a bike
We race through the night through the night
We race through the night
Tonight
Tonight
Tonight
Johnny Guitar(Young, Lee)
Play your guitar
Play it again - Johnny
Maybe you're cold
You can be warm
She knows
But she was always the fool for you Johnny
For the one they call Johhny Guitar
Play it again Johnny Guitar
But if you go
But if you stay
She'll love you
You can be cruel
You can be kind
She knows
There was never a man like Johnny
Like the one they call Johhny Guitar
Play that guitar
There was never a man like Johnny
Like the one they call Johhny Guitar
Play that guitar
There was never a man called Johnny Guitar
Well play it again Johnny Guitar
Chase The Wild Wind(Dave Vanian)
I don't know why but I know it's true
But I felt straight away from the moment I found you
You came into my life and as quickly you were gone
Like the wild wind
With a place you stole my heart
Went other ways right from the start
Only the lonely know how I feel tonight
Tonight and every night
I still sleep with the love of you
Still feeling tense and if other still
But you slipped into the night like a ghostly tragedy
Just a wild wind
With a place you stole my heart
Went other ways right from the start
Only the lonely know how I feel tonight
Tonight and every night
I don't know why but I know it's true
That I felt straight away from the moment I found you
You came into my life and as quickly you were gone
Like a wild wind
Chase the wild wind
Chase the wild wind
Chase the wild wind
Chase the wild wind
Chase the wild wind
Chase the wild wind
Chase the wild wind
Chase the wild wind
Swamp Thing(Dave Vanian, Roman Jugg)
Out for kicks and in for trouble
Running to the rivers edge
Take a look in the dark water
Won't recognise what you'll see there
Walking down, down by the river
Frogs are jumping and the catfish flies
Ooh down the river of no return
Desperate men wait down by the river
Whispering shadows by the rivers edge
Would-be assassin's or pleasure seekers
By the moon no way to tell
Black thoughts black water
Smooth surface hidden undertow
Rivers edge 'round the rivers bend
Around the river that never ends
The skeletons dance with sex by the riverside
I saw a girl
Was a killer
Murdered her love in June
Walking away from the river
Leaving behind the king of fools
Dark moons red river
Coloured by the howling moon
Rivers edge 'round the rivers bend
Around the river that never ends
Darkness snakes a sideways glance
From the river's other side
Ride the river of no return
From the big black swamp
Reptile eyes
Come's a sideways glance
From the river's other side
