Lyrics: Coda

This page contains my transcription of the lyrics from this Led Zeppelin album.
We're Gonna Groove / Poor Tom / I Can't Quit You Baby / Walter's Walk
Ozone Baby / Darlene / Wearing and Tearing

It also includes the following songs which were not on the main studio albums.
Baby Come On Home / Hey Hey What Can I Do / Travelling Riverside Blues

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We're Gonna Groove

See my baby coming down the track
Bet you my baby's coming back
Someday she'll get back to me
Oh and we're gonna raise a family

We're gonna groove - yeah, groove
We're gonna groove
We're gonna love, love, love
Until the break of day

Sweet as sweet as sweet can be
You don't know what you do to me
Let me say you're my one desire
You just set my soul on fire

We're gonna groove [etc repeated]

Sweet as sweet as sweet can be
Let me tell you, you don't know what you do to me
You just set my soul on fire
Woman you know you're my one desire

We're gonna groove [etc repeated]

IconPoor Tom

Here's a tale of Tom, who worked the riverfront
His wife would cook his meals, as he would check the wheels
Poor Tom, seventh son, always knew what's going on

Ain't a thing that you can hide from Tom
There ain't nothing that you can hide from Tom

Worked for thirty years, sharing hopes and fears
Dreaming of the day he could turn and say
Poor Tom, work's done - lazing out in the noonday sun

Ain't a thing that you can hide from Tom
Ain't nothing that you can hide from Tom

His wife was Emmie May - many many games she played
When Tom was out of town, she couldn't keep her dresses down
Poor Tom, seventh son, always knew what's going on

Ain't a thing that you can hide from Tom
Ain't nothing that you can hide from Tom

And so it was one day, people got to Emmie May
Tom took a gun in his hand, and stopped all the running around
Poor Tom, seventh son, gotta die for what you've done

All those years of work are thrown away
To ease your mind - is that all you can say?
But what about that grandson on your knee?
And they wrote songs as long as he could be

Ain't nothing that you can hide from Tom
Ain't a thing that you can hide from Tom
There ain't nothing that you can hide from Tom
Keep a-trucking - keep a-trucking

IconI Can't Quit You Baby

I can't quit you babe
Woman, I think I'm gonna put you down for a little while
I can't quit you babe
I think I'm gonna put you down for a while
I said you messed up my happy home
Made me mistreat my only child

You build my hopes so high
Baby, then you let me down so low
You - you build my hopes so high
Then you let me down so low
Don't you realise, sweet baby?
Woman, I don't know which way to go

Woman, I can't quit you babe
I think I'm gonna put you down for a while

IconWalter's Walk

Don't it feel so strange looking at the door?
Trying hard to change, but can't let go
Crying tears of pain - hurting more and more
Everyday's the same as you walk the floor

I'm walking the floor over you
I'm walking the floor

Every heart that breaks is a heart that's cold
To the hand that takes your dreamless soul
Is it long to wait? is it much too late?
Sometimes it's hard to ignore the pain

You know it's hard - I said it's hard - you know it's true
I said it's hard - you know it's hard - still know it's true

Every tear that falls is a smile that's lost
When you hear the call can you count the cost?
As you stand alone do you wonder how?
Can you step aside? does it matter now?

Every love that's shared isn't splendid for me
In the eye of the night was it hard to see?
It never fails, in spite of it all
As you fight the tears in the Walter's walk
You know it's true now

I'm walking the floor over you
I'm walking the floor

Every tear that falls is a smile that's lost
When you hear the call can you count the cost?
As you stand alone do you wonder how?
Can you step aside? does it matter now?
Does it matter now?

IconOzone Baby

I hear you knock on my door
I ain't been saving this thing for you, honey
Don't want you ringing my bell
It's too late for you to be my honey

Ooh, it's my love - ooh, it's my own true love
Ooh, it's my love - ooh, it's my own true love, my own

Don't want you wasting my time
Tired of you doing the things that you do
It's no use standing in line
Fall in line - you'd better form a queue

Ooh, it's my love [etc repeated]

I could stay on the riverfront
But I know that's just
I could wish for a million years
But I know I'm still alone
I could cry within the darkness and sail away
I could trade a lifetime forever
To know you know - you know what I said

Ooh, it's my love [etc repeated]

IconDarlene

Darlene - oh, Darlene --
Come on, baby - give me some
When I see you at that dance with your tight dress on
What you got it sure is fine - I wanna get me some
Darlene - baby Darlene - be my baby Darlene

Darlene - oh, Darlene --
Come back and be my sweet little girl
When I see you on the street, it makes my heart go flitter
I see you walkin with all those guys, it makes me feel so sad

Now I don't care what people say
And I don't care what they do
Sweet child, I gotta make you mine
You're the only thing that I want - you!

Baby baby, when you walk down the block
See the people fight
Oh child, you know you drive me wild
I gotta do it with you - gonna try

Oh baby, I got my car - I'll take you where it's fine
I'm gonna take you every place
I'm gonna boogie-woogie-woogie-woogie - that's fine

I'm gonna prove it, Darlene
I'm gonna make ya my girl
I'm gonna boogie, Darlene
I'm gonna send you in another world

'Cause I love you, Darlene
And I love you - yes I do
I've been saving all my money
I've been working all day long
I'm gonna give it all back to you

Oh, but I love you, Darlene
Yes I love you - yes I do
I've been working in school
I've been working every day
I've been trying to get it home to you

And I love you, Darlene
Yes I love you - I do
I got a pink carnation and a pick-up truck
I saved it, baby, all for you
Oh, I love you

IconWearing And Tearing

It starts out like a murmur
And then it grows like thunder
Until it bursts inside of you
Try to hold it steady
Wait until you're ready
Any second now will do
Throw the door wide open
Not a word is spoken
Anything that you want to do

Don't you feel the same way?
Don't you feel the same way?
But you don't know what to do
No time for hesitating
Ain't no time for hesitating
All you got to do is move
They say you're feeling blue
Well, I just found a cure
It's a thing you gotta do

Well, you say your body's aching
I know that it's aching
Chill bumps come up on you
Yeah, the fun and fooling
I love the fun and fooling
Just like fooling after school
And then you ask for medication
Who cares for medication?
When you've worn away the cure

Go back to the country
Yeah, go back to the country
Feel the change is good for you
When you keep convincing
Don't keep convincing
What's that creeping up behind you?
It's just an old friend
It's just an old friend
And what's that he's got for you?

IconBaby Come On Home

There was a time
I used to call you all my very own
We were so happy woman
Talking for hours and hours on the telephone
Then one day
I said you upped and walked right outta my life
Leaving me all by myself
All alone, to cry every night

[Babe, babe, babe, come on home]
I want you to come back home, yeah
[Oh yeah, you've been gone too long]
Sweet little girl - you've been away so long

I said I made up my mind
Woman, when you left me there
I was gonna find another sweet lover
Who's gonna feel all of my, all of my care
So I met a sweet little girl
Just about as nice as she could be
I fell in love with that woman
But she turned round and did the same thing again to me

[Babe, babe, babe, come on home]
Baby, baby, please come home, oh yeah
[Oh yeah, you've been gone too long]
I know you've been away so long
[Babe, babe, babe, come on home]
I want you to please come home
[Oh yeah, you've been gone too long]

So I made up my mind
I'm gonna crawl right back to you woman
I'm gonna plead and plead and plead
Till you're here by my side
I can't even walk down the same old streets we used to walk down
'Cause I keep thinking about all the good times
Keep thinking about it - I wanna make you mine

[Babe, babe, babe, come on home]
Baby, baby, baby, please come home
[Oh yeah, you've been gone too long]
I want you to come back running home, woman
[Please, please, please come home]
[Oh yeah, you've been gone too long] --

IconHey Hey What Can I Do

Wanna tell you 'bout the girl I love
My, she looks so fine
She's the only one that I've been dreaming of
Maybe someday she will be all mine
I wanna tell her that I love her so
I thrill with her every touch
I need to tell her she's the only one I really love

I've got a woman want to ball all day
I've got a woman - she won't be true, no
I've got a woman stay drunk all the time
I said I got a little woman and she won't be true

Sunday morning when we go down to church
See the menfolk standing in line
Don't say they come to pray to the Lord
When my little girl looks so fine
And in the evening when the sun is sinking low
And everybody's with the one they love
I walk the town - keep searching all around
Looking for my street corner girl

I've got a woman [etc repeated]

In the bars with the men who play guitars
Sitting drinking and remembering the times
My little lover does a midnight shift
She fool around all of the time
I guess there's just one thing left for me to do
Gonna pack my bags and move on my way
'Cause I've got a worried mind
Sharing what I thought was mine
Gonna leave her where the guitars play

I've got a woman - she won't be true, no
I've got a woman want to ball all day, yeah
I've got a woman stay drunk all the time
I got a little woman and she won't be true
I said she won't be true

[Hey, hey, what can I do?]
[No, no, what can I say?] --

IconTravelling Riverside Blues

Asked sweet mama - let me be her kid
She said: you might get hurt if you don't keep it hid
Well, I know my baby if I see her in the dark
I said I know my rider if I see her in the dark

Now, I'm going to Rosedale - take my rider by my side
Still barrelhouse, but it's on the riverside
I know my baby - Lord, I said, is there something wrong?
I know my mama - Lord, a brown skin, but she ain't no plum

See my baby, tell her, tell her hurry home
Had no loving since my baby been gone
See my baby - tell her hurry on home
I ain't had, Lord, my right mind since my rider's been gone

She promises she's my rider
I wanna tell you she's my rider
Blow your mind - she's my rider
She ain't but sixteen, but she's my rider

I'm goin' to Rosedale - take my rider by my side
Anybody argue with me, man, I'll keep them satisfied
When I see my baby - tell her, tell her the shape I'm in
Ain't had no loving, Lord, since you know when

She's a kind-hearted lady - she studies evil all the time
She's a kind-hearted woman - she studies evil all the time
Squeeze my lemon till the juice runs down my leg
Squeeze it so hard I'll fall right out of bed
You squeeze my lemon till the juice runs down my leg
(I wonder if you know what I'm talking about)
Oh, but the way that you squeeze it girl
I swear I'm gonna fall right out of bed
She's a good rider

She's my kind-hearted lady
I'm gonna take my rider by my side
I said her front teeth are lined with gold
She's got a mortgage on my body
Got a lien on my soul
She's my brown skinned sugar plum

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