WHICH CAME FIRST
Ry Cooder

(Willie Dixon & Ry Cooder)

You may be a hater, you may be a lover
You can bet your life one destroys the other
I don't know how it all began, which came first
The egg or the hen

The moon comes up and the sun goes down
This old world keeps spinning around
Just as sure as the day turns into the night
What you do in the dark will turn up in the light
Masked man ridin' out across the land
Spreading destruction and moving his hand
He carries a ray-gun, shoots from the hip
Got your past in his pocket, your future's in his grip

You may be a hater, you may be a lover
You bet your life one destroys the other
I don't know how it all began, which came first
The egg or the hen

Now, you bet your life without a doubt
Asking a masked man to leat you out
He's got you so tight that you can't even see
That ray-gun is pointed right at you and me

You won't see it coming
You won't feel the blow
You won't get no warning
You won't never know
You can't start it sooner
And fix it up later
And you ain't going to read about it in the newspaper

Rich or poor, mighty and meek
Don't need no ticket, you've all got a seat
High up on the mountain, low down in the alley
We'll all watch the world turn into death valley

You may be a hater, you may be a lover
You can bet your life one destroys the other
I don't know how it all began, which came first
The egg or the hen

Better shake my hand 'cause time is winding up
Shake your neighbor's hand 'cause time is winding up

You may be a hater, you may be a lover
You can bet your life one destroys the other
I don't know how it all began, which came first
The egg or the hen


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  13 QUESTION METHOD   3 Cool Cats   3rd Base, Doger Stadium   5000 Country Music Songs   634-5789   634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.)   A Canción Mixteca   ACROSS THE BORDERLINE   Across the Borderline [From the Border]   Alimony   ALL SHOOK UP   Always Lift Him Up, Kanaka Wai Wai   ALWAYS LIFT HIM UP/KANAKA WAI WAI   Amor de Loca Juventud   Archie's Funeral   ARCHIE'S FUNERAL (HOLD TO GOD'S UNCHANGING HAND)   At The Dark End Of The Street   Ax Sweet Mama   Better Things to Think About   Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now   BILLY THE KID   BLUE SUEDE SHOES   BOOMER'S STORY   Bourgeois Blues   Brother Is Gone   Can I Smoke In Here?   Cancion Mixteca   Chan Chan   Cherry Ball Blues   Chinito Chinito   Chloe   Coast of Malabar   Cole Younger Polka   COMIN' IN ON A WING AND A PRAYER   Crazy 'bout An Automobile   CRAZY 'BOUT AN AUTOMOBILE (Every Woman I Know)   CROW BLACK CHICKEN   Dark End Of The Street   Dark Is the Night   DENOMINATION BLUES   DITTY WAH DITTY   DO RE MI   Don't Call Me Red   DON'T MESS UP A GOOD THING   Dos Gardenias   Down in Hollywood   Down in Mississippi   DOWN IN THE BOONDOCKS   Drive Like I Never Been Hurt   El Carretero   El Cuarto de Tula [Buena Vista Social Club]   El Scorcho [Instrumental]   Escape from Northfield   F.D.R. IN TRINIDAD   Fernando Sez   Filipino Dance Hall Girl   Finale (Over the Rainbow)   Flathead One More Time   FRANCE CHANCE   Get Away   GET RHYTHM   Go Home Girl   Go Home, Girl   Goin' To Brownsville   GOING BACK TO OKINAWA   GOING TO BROWNSVILLE   GOOD MORNING MR. RAILROAD MAN   GOODNIGHT IRENE   Great Dream from Heaven   Gypsy Woman   He Made a Woman Out of Me   HE'LL HAVE TO GO   HEY PORTER   Hold That Snake   HOW CAN A POOR MAN STAND SUCH TIMES AND LIVE ?   How Can You Keep On Moving   HOW CAN YOU KEEP ON MOVING (UNLESS YOU MIGRATE TOO...   I Can Tell By The Way You Smell   I CAN'T WIN   I GOT MINE   I NEED A WOMAN   I'M A GOOD OLD REBEL   I'M DRINKING AGAIN   If Walls Could Talk   IT'S ALL OVER NOW   JESSE JAMES   JESSE JAMES (Another version)   Jesse James [From the Long Riders]   JESUS ON THE MAINLINE   JOHNNY PORTER   La Bayamesa   Leaving Missouri   LET'S HAVE A BALL   LITTLE SISTER   Little Trona Girl   LOOK AT GRANNY RUN RUN   Looking for the Wall Street Part of Town   Los Chucos Suaves   MAMA, DON'T TREAT YOUR DAUGHTER MEAN   Maria Elena   MARRIED MAN'S A FOOL   MEDLEY: FOOL FOR A CIGARETTE/FEELIN' GOOD   MEXICAN DIVORCE   MONEY HONEY   Mutt Romney Blues   My Dwarf Is Getting Tired   My Old Kentucky Home (Turpentine and Dandelion Win...   NEVER MAKE YOUR MOVE TOO SOON   Nobody   Old Kentucky Home   ON A MONDAY   Onda Callejera   ONE MEAT BALL   PIG MEAT   Pigmeat   POLICE DOG BLUES   Poor Man's Shangri-la   Powis Square   PRESIDENT KENNEDY   Rally 'round The Flag   Rally Round the Flag   Ridin With The Blues   Rio Grande [Instrumental]   School Is Out   SENECA SQUARE DANCE   Shine   SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE   Spayed Kooley   SPEEDO   STAND BY ME   Steel Guitar Heaven   TAMP 'EM UP SOLID   Tattler   TAXES ON THE FARMER FEEDS US ALL   TEARDROPS WILL FALL   THAT'S THE WAY LOVE TURNED OUT TO BE   The Dark End of the Street   THE GIRLS FROM TEXAS   The Last Sound (Alamo Bay) [From Alamo Bay]   The Long Riders   The Mutt Romney Blues   The Very Thing That Makes You Rich   The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)   THE WAY WE MAKE A BROKEN HEART   TROUBLE YOU CAN'T FOOL ME   UFO HAS LANDED IN THE GHETTO   Veinte Años   VIGILANTE MAN   Viola Lee Blues   Viva Seguin/ Do Re Mi [Instrumental]   Volver, Volver   Waitin For Some Girl   Why Don't You Try Me   WILDWOOD BOYS   WOMEN WILL RULE THE WORLD   YELLOW ROSES

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