"I Got To Let You Know"

   
(Cesar Rosas)

You know your love for me
Has given me a thrill
And I just can't stand still
Pretty mama, you know I love you so
'Cause I love you and I want you, Baby
I got to let you know

You know your kiss kiss kiss
Has set me off my feet
And that just can't be beat
Pretty mama, with any other girl
'Cause I love you and I want you, Baby
I got to let you know

Every night in my dreams
I can hold you near
Even then I still feel
That loving you is real
You know my love's still strong
And I'm still holding on
Ain't nothing we can't do
Pretty darlin', you know I love you so
'Cause I love you and I want you, Baby
I got to let you know

Every night in my dreams
I can hold you near
Even then I still feel
That loving you is real
You know my love's still strong
And I'm still holding on
Ain't nothing we can't do
Pretty mama, you know I love you so
'Cause I love you and I want you, Baby
I got to let you know
'Cause I love you and I want you, Baby
I got to let you know

"Lil' King Of Everything"

   
(Hidalgo/Perez)

[Instrumental]

"Will The Wolf Survive?"

   
(David Hidalgo/Louie Perez)

Through the chill of winter
Running across the frozen lake
Hunters are out on his trail
All odds are against him
With a family to provide for
The one thing he must keep alive
Will the wolf survive?

Drifting by the roadside
Climbs each storm and aging face
Wants to make some morning's fate
Losing to the range war
He's got two strong legs to guide him
Two strong arms keep him alive
Will the wolf survive?

Standing in the pouring rain
All alone in a world that's changed
Running scared, now forced to hide
In a land where he once stood with pride
But he'll find his way by the morning light

Sounds across the nation
Coming from your hearts and minds
Battered drums and old guitars
Singing songs of passion
It's the truth that they all look for
The one thing they must keep alive
Will the wolf survive?
Will the wolf survive?

"One Time, One Night"

   
(David Hidalgo/Louie Perez)

A wise man was telling stories to me
About the places he had been to
And the things that he had seen

A quiet voice is singing something to me
An age old song about the home of the brave
In this land here of the free
One time one night in America

A lady dressed in white with the man she loved
Standing along the side of their pickup truck
A shot rang out in the night
Just when everything seemed right
Another headline written down in America

The guy that lived next door in #305
Took the kids to the park and disappeared
About half past nine
Who will ever know
How much she loved them so
That dark night alone in America

A quiet voice is singing something to me
An age old song about the home of the brave
In this land here of the free
One time one night in America

Four small boys playing ball in a parking lot
A preacher, a teacher, and the other became a cop
A car skidded into the rain
Making the last little one a saint
One more light goes out in America

A young girl tosses a coin in the wishing well
She hopes for a heaven while for her
There's just this hell
She gave away her life
To become somebody's wife
Another wish unanswered in America

People having so much faith
Die too soon while all the rest come late
We write a song that no one sings
On a cold black stone
Where a lasting peace will finally bring

The sunlight plays upon my windowpane
I wake up to a world that's still the same
My father said to be strong
And that a good man could never do wrong
In a dream I had last night in America

A wise man was telling storie to me
About the places he had been to
And the things that he had seen

A quiet voice is singing something to me
An age old song about the home of the brave
In this land here of the free
One time one night in America

"Shakin' Shakin' Shakes"

   
(Cesar Rosas/T-Bone Burnett)

The wind blows through the valley
It's warm and hard and wild
It gets all up inside the trees
And shakes the leaves all night
They shake up through the mountains
They shake up to the sky
They shake up to the moon above
And then it starts to shine
And Lord it makes me tremble
And Lord it makes me tremble
They shakin' and shakin' and shakes

A fault runs through the valley
It's long as it is mean
It starts to tear into the earth
And gets all in between
It shakes up through the mountains
It shakes down to the sea
It shakes up to the volcano
And then it starts to scream
And then it starts to shine
And Lord it makes me tremble
And Lord it makes me tremble
It's shakin' and shakin' and shakes

There's a woman in this valley
She's sweet as she is rough
And when she starts to dance that way
She shakes the boys all up
She shakes it through the mountains
She shakes it through the night
She shakes it like a hurricane
She gives a blind man sight
And Lord it makes me tremble
And Lord it makes me tremble
She's shakin' and shakin' and shakes

"Is This All There Is?"

   
(David Hidalgo/Louie Perez)

Climbing high to the mountain top
Reaching up to the sky above
Asking to myself
Is this all there is?

Sailing into the ocean blue
Trying to find at least one clue
On a paper scrawled
Is this all there is?

[Chorus:]
And they all came to talk about it
The came to cry and laught and fight about it
All searching for the promised land
Tired souls with empty hands
Asking to themselves
Is this all there is?

Fifteen years on a sewing machine
Where twisted hands don't mean a thing
Wondering to herself
Is this all there is?

Baby crying in an old tin cup
Wanting more but there's never enough
While her mother sighs
Is this all there is?

[Chorus]

"Prenda Del Alma"

   
(Traditional, arranged by Los Lobos)

?Que hare lejos de ti prenda del alma?
?Sin verte, sin oirte y sin hablarte?
A cada instante intentare de ti acordarme

?Como quitar la esencia de las flores?
?Como quitarle al viento la armonia?
?Como negar que te amo, vida mia?
?Como borrar de mi alma esta pasion?

Al ver que el cruel destino nos condena
Mi bien de que me olvidez tengo miedo
Mi corazon me dice ya no puedo
No puedo mis angustias soportar

?Como quitar el brillo a las estrellas?
?Como impedir que corra el manso rio?
?Como negar que sufrir el pecho mio?
?Como borrar de mi alma esta pasion?

"All I Wanted To Do Was Dance"

   
(David Hidalgo/Louie Perez/T-Bone Burnett)

Who's feeling sorry now?
Just when I thought I knew how
The man with the master plan
I let it all slip through my hands

Why did you turn on me?
I'm the same man that I used to be
Did you forget who I am?
I'm the man with the master plan

But every day's the same
Nothing seems to change
My life is just minutes away
And all I wanted to do was dance

How could this happen to me?
I had it all worked to a T
Went through it with a fine toothed comb
Now you want to leave me here alone

But every day's the same
Nothing seems to change
My life is just minutes away
And all I wanted to do was dance

I didn't ask for much
I maybe didn't ask for enough
I maybe should've forced your hand
But all I wanted to do was dance

"Set Me Free (Rosa Lee)"

   
(Cesar Rosas)

When love's in vain, love can be so strange
There ain't nothing I can take to kill this pain
Set me free
Why don't you, Rosa Lee?

She is a dream, but she's so hard to please
She moves around like an Egyptian queen
Set me free
Why don't you, Rosa Lee?

I'm so afraid of losing you
But there's only so much that a man can do
For Rosa Lee
Why don't you set me free?

When I hit the road the time goes slow
Thinking about the places I used to go
With Rosa Lee
Why won't you set me free?

They're trying to close the Tu y Yo
The Latin Playboy and the Sky Room shows
Oh! Rosa Lee
Why don't they let them be?

I can't get used to losing you
But there's only so much that a man can do
For Rosa Lee
Why don't you set me free?

When love's in vain, love can be so strange
But I never thought I'd wear a ball and chain
Set me free
Why don't you, Rosa Lee?

"The Hardest Time"

   
(David Hidalgo/Louie Perez)

A toast to love with paper cups
And a vow to never part
They're saying to each other there's a fire burning
Deep within their hearts
But at her darkest hour he's gone far away
She's all alone
And when the lights go out it's the hardest time
The hardest time to be alone

She sends her Mary off to school
And sits to watch TV
They're talking about spending their lives together
The way it's supposed to be
Then the baby cries, wakes her from her dream
She's on her own
And when the lights go out it's the hardest time
The hardest time to be alone

A mother's dream is like a story never told
Reaching out for something more then a hand to hold
Wanting the girl she left behind
So far behind

Pen and paper in her hand
To write the folks back home
She's telling them again that her life is better
Not like long ago
Then her shaking hand tears across the page
Crumbles to the floor
And when the lights go out it's the hardest time
The hardest time to be alone